ngũ giới

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 五戒, composed of 五 (“five”) and 戒 (“to swear off; be on guard”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ngũ giới

(religion, Buddhism) the Five Precepts[1]

References

Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “ngũ giới”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 383

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