đỡ
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "do"
Vietnamese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 助 (“to help”, SV: trợ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
- to raise (someone) from a fall; to lift up
- to prop; to support
- to take in one's hands (what is offered, given); to help down with some load
- to parry; to ward off
- (colloquial) to help; to give a hand
- to reduce (a negative emotion or situation); to relieve
- 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, chapter 8, in Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng:
- Không có một tiếng vạc sành kêu cho đỡ buồn.
- Not one cricket chirped to reduce the sadness.
- to get better (after falling sick); to recover
- Em đỡ chưa? ― Feeling better? / Recovered yet?
- Short for đỡ đẻ (“to deliver (a woman in childbirth)”).
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Derived terms
Adverb[edit]
đỡ
- (Northern Vietnam) temporarily (in the absence of a better method); as a makeshift