dại

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dai"

Vietnamese edit

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Bệnh dại

Etymology edit

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “This word is quite consistently written with characters with 曳 (MC yejH) as phonetic, even in Phật thuyết, and the Mường Bi cognate also shows palatal initial. If this is actually from Proto-Vietic *-daːlʔ, there should be a dental/alveolar stop popping up somewhere.”

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaːj˧˨ʔ]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaːj˨˩ʔ]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jaːj˨˩˨]

Adverb edit

dại • (𥹞)

(especially of plants) wildly; naturally; in an uncontrolled way
Cây này mọc dại chứ đâu ai trồng.
This tree grows naturally, nobody planted it.

Adjective edit

dại • (𤵺, 𠻇, 𥹞, 𢚵, 㹭)

(of a plant) wild
cỏ dại ― weeds
(of a person) naive and lacking in common sense
Mày lớn/to đầu mà dại lắm con ạ!
How can you be so old yet so infantile?
(of an action) clumsy or unrefined
(of an animal) rabid
chó dại ― a rabid/mad dog
(of a body part) numb due to a loss of circulation

Noun edit

dại • (𤵺)

(bệnh ~) rabies (a kind of infectious disease)

Derived terms edit

dại dột (“foolish”)
dại khờ (“foolish”)
hoang dại
khôn nhà dại chợ
khôn nhà dại chợ
khờ dại
man dại (“savage”)
ngây dại (“foolish”)
tê dại
trót dại (“to err foolishly”)