đá lông nheo
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Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
đá (“to kick”) + lông nheo (“eyelash”), roughly something like "to do a strike with the eyelashes".
Semantically, compare Finnish iskeä silmää, Japanese 瞬く (matataku), Tok Pisin brukim ai.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˧˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˨˩˦ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɗaː˦˥ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ ɲɛw˧˧]
Verb[edit]
- (colloquial) to wink
- Synonym: nháy mắt