mốt

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Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French mode f.

Noun[edit]

mốt

  1. fashion; trend
    hợp mốtà la mode; fashionable
    lỗi mốtout-of-fashion

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Etymology 2[edit]

Related to một (one). Compare Khmu pŋmoːj ("day after tomorrow") and moːj ("one"), Sa'och [of Kanchanaburi] mṳːj ("day after tomorrow") and mṳːˀj ("one").

Noun[edit]

mốt (𣋻)

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, colloquial) day after tomorrow
    Synonyms: ngày mốt (formal or emphatic), ngày kia (Northern Vietnam)
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Etymology 3[edit]

Variant of một.

Numeral[edit]

mốt (, , )

  1. (only in compounds or fixed expressions) one; -one
    Mốt hai mốt hai mốt hai mốt!
    One two one two one two one!
    hai (mươi) mốt / hăm mốttwenty-one
    một trăm mốtone hundred and ten (thousand dongs)
    một triệu mốtone million one hundred thousand (dongs)
Usage notes[edit]
  • Mốt is used to say "one" as in "twenty-one", "thirty-one", ..., "ninety-one", not in "one hundred and one" or "one thousand and one"; "eleven" is mười một, not *mười mốt.