đồng bóng

Vietnamese

Etymology

đồng (“medium”) +‎ bóng (“shamaness, female occultist”); the second element is obsolete and seems to be fossilized in this compound, obsolete compound bóng cốt, and phrasal verb hầu bóng.

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˧˥] ~ [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩ ʔɓɔŋ˦˧˥]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˥]

Noun

đồng bóng

  1. (religion) a spirit medium in Vietnamese folk religion

Adjective

đồng bóng

  1. fickle; capricious; mercurial
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