muôn vàn

Vietnamese

Alternative forms
  • (obsolete) man vàn

Etymology

muôn (“ten thousand”) +‎ vàn, a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 萬 (“ten thousand”, SV: vạn). Compare also vô vàn.

Pronunciation
  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [muən˧˧ vaːn˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [muəŋ˧˧ vaːŋ˦˩]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [muəŋ˧˧ vaːŋ˨˩] ~ [muəŋ˧˧ jaːŋ˨˩]

Noun

muôn vàn

  1. (literary) a great many (of); an uncountable number (of); a multitude (of)
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