zaub

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-ʔræi (“vegetable”); cognate with Iu Mien lai and perhaps Middle Chinese 卉 (MC xjw+jX|xjw+jH, “herbs, vegetation”). Likely unrelated to Vietnamese rau (“leafy greens, leaf vegetable”), despite superficial similarities.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʐau̯˥/

Noun

zaub

1. leafy greens; leafy vegetables
2. vegetables
3. (colloquial) vegetarian

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.