npau

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ᵐbau̯˧/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mpu̯æiH (“to boil (intransitive)”), borrowed from Old Chinese 沸 (OC *pɯds, “to boil”).[1][2]

Verb

npau

  1. to bubble up, to boil
    Dej npau npau. ― The water is boiling.
  2. to be angry, to "boil" with anger
Derived terms
  • npau siab (“to be angry”)
  • npau taws (“anger”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mpeiH (“dream”);[1] compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *mp[ɔ]ʔ (“id”) (whence Mon [script needed] (kəpɔʔ, “id”)), Proto-Austronesian *Sipi (“id”) (whence Malay mimpi (“id”)).[3]

Noun

npau

  1. used in npau suav (“a dream”)

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 158.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 277.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
  3. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 236.
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