hành
See also: hạnh
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [hajŋ̟˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [hɛɲ˦˩]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [han˨˩]
Noun
(classifier cây, củ) hành • (行, 荇)
- green onion
- Synonyms: hành lá, hành ta
- shallot
- Synonyms: hành củ, hành ta, hành tía, hành tím, hẹ tây
- Short for hành tây (“onion”, literally “western onion”).
Derived terms
- mỡ hành
Etymology 2
Shortened from hành hạ.
Coinage most likely facilitated by the homophony of the unrelated noun above, leading to further coinage of phrases like bán hành (“to torment physically/to sell scallion”) and bón hành (“to give a one-sided beating/to spoon-feed scallion”).
Noun
hành
Etymology 3
Sino-Vietnamese word from 行 (“to go; to work”). Normally a bound morpheme, but became somewhat free due to expressions such as học hành, which may be expanded to học đi đôi với hành. học hành normally means "studies" but can be used as a rhetorical device to mean "theory and praxis".
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