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”).[1] 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, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 286.
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