đũa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dua"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 箸 (“chopstick”, SV: trứ).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗuə˦ˀ˥]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗuə˧˨]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗuə˨˩˦]

Noun

(classifier chiếc, cây) đũa • (箸, 筷, 杜, 𥮊)

a chopstick (single eating utensil)
cặp/đôi đũa lệch ― (figurative, humorous) a pair with a significant height difference (literally, “an uneven pair of chopsticks”)
(by extension, folklore, fantasy) a wand

Derived terms

đũa cả (“large flat chopstick used to serve rice from a pot”)
giun đũa (“ascaris lumbricoides”)
đũa thần; đũa phép (“magic wand”)
banh đũa

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