trăng

See also: trang, Trang, tráng, trắng, and trång

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (Northern Vietnam, inland dialects) giăng
• (Northern Vietnam, coastal dialects, likely obsolete) lăng
• (Northern Vietnam, coastal dialects, endangered) tăng

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *b-laŋ. This is Central-Southern form, now also the most common written form.

The Northern Middle Vietnamese form is attested as blang in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Most likely a false cognate of Proto-Austronesian *bulaN (“moon”) (whence Malay bulan, Javanese wulan, Tagalog buan and Malagasy volana) and Proto-Tai *ɓlɯənᴬ (“moon”) (whence Thai เดือน (dʉʉan), Saek เบรี๋ยน, Zhuang ndwen), see more at the entry *b-laŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧]

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Proper noun

trăng • (𢁋, 𣎞, 𦝄)

1. (literary) the Moon

   Synonym: Mặt Trăng

Derived terms

• mặt trăng; ông trăng
• trăng rằm; trăng tròn
• tuổi trăng rằm; tuổi trăng tròn