nguyên
VietnameseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Southern Vietnam, obsolete) nguơn
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 元.
AdjectiveEdit
nguyên
NounEdit
nguyên
- (numismatics) yuan. See also viên 圓.
Derived termsEdit
- Công Nguyên (公元, “the Common Era”)
- giải nguyên (解元, “(historical) first place provincial imperial exam winner”)
- khôi nguyên (魁元, “(historical) first place imperial exam winner”)
- kỉ nguyên (紀元, “(literary) age; era”)
- nguyên soái (“(military) a marshal”)
- nguyên niên (元年, “(historical) first year of an imperial era”)
- nguyên thủ (元首)
- nguyên tố (元素, “chemical element”)
- nguyên âm (元音, “vowel”)
- nguyên đán (元旦, “(lunisolar) new year”)
- sau Công Nguyên (“the Common Era (misconstruction)”)
- Tết Nguyên Đán (“Vietnamese Lunar New Year”)
- thuyết nhất nguyên (說一元, “(philosophy) monism”)
- thứ nguyên (次元, “dimensional”)
- trạng nguyên (狀元, “(history) a zhuangyuan”)
- đa nguyên (多元, “pluralistic”)
Etymology 2Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 原.
NounEdit
nguyên
- (only in compounds) foundation; basis; background
- số nguyên ― integer
- phần nguyên ― the integral part of a decimal fraction
- (law) plaintiff
AdjectiveEdit
nguyên
Derived termsEdit
- bên nguyên (“plaintiff; prosecutor”)
- bình nguyên (平原, “(dated) plain”)
- cao nguyên (高原, “highland; plateau”)
- kháng nguyên (抗原, “antigen”)
- nguyên cám (“whole-wheat”)
- nguyên cớ (“reason; cause”)
- nguyên vẹn (“intact; whole; undamaged”)
- nguyên bản (原本, “original”)
- nguyên chất (原質, “pure; unadulterated”)
- nguyên cáo (原告, “accuser; plaintiff”)
- nguyên hình (原形, “original or true form”)
- nguyên liệu (原料, “raw material”)
- nguyên lí (原理, “a principle”)
- nguyên nhân (原因, “cause; reason”)
- nguyên sinh (原生, “primordial”)
- nguyên sơ (原初, “primordial; pristine”)
- nguyên thuỷ (原始, “(mythology, religion) primordial; primitive”)
- nguyên tắc (原則, “principle”)
- nguyên tử (原子, “atom”)
- nguyên tử (原子, “atom”)
- nguyên văn (原文, “verbatim; sic”)
- nguyên đơn (原單, “plaintiff”)
- số nguyên (“integer”)
- Thái Nguyên (太原, “Thai Nguyen”)
- thảo nguyên (草原, “grassland; steppe”)
- trung nguyên (中原, “(rare) central plains; China”)
- Tây Nguyên (西原, “Central Highlands”)
- y nguyên (依原, “intact; unchanged”)
- đài nguyên (苔原, “tundra”)
Etymology 3Edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 源. Doublet of nguồn.
NounEdit
nguyên
Derived termsEdit
- căn nguyên (根源, “origin; source; initial cause”)
- dị nguyên (異源, “allergen; antigen”)
- lai nguyên (來源, “source”)
- ngữ nguyên (語源, “(linguistics, account) etymology”)
- tài nguyên (財源, “resources”)
- từ nguyên (詞源, “(linguistics, account) etymology”)
- từ nguyên (辭源, “(linguistics, account) etymology”)
PrefixEdit
nguyên
- (officialese) former
- nguyên Chủ tịch nước… ― former President…
- nguyên Tổng bí thư… ― former General Secretary…
See alsoEdit
See alsoEdit
- nguyên mẫu (“(grammar) infinitive”)
- nguyên quán (“birthplace; native land”)