trăng

See also: Appendix:Variations of "trang"

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (Northern Vietnam, inland dialects) giăng
• (Northern Vietnam, coastal dialects, likely obsolete) lăng
• (Northern Vietnam, coastal dialects, endangered) tăng

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *b-laŋ. This is the Central-Southern form, now also the most common written form. See giai for the sound changes.

The Northern Middle Vietnamese form is attested as blang in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Most likely a false cognate of Proto-Austronesian *bulaN (“moon”) (whence Malay bulan, Javanese wulan, Tagalog buan and Malagasy volana) and Proto-Tai *ɓlɯənᴬ (“moon”) (whence Thai เดือน (dʉʉan), Saek เบรี๋ยน, Zhuang ndwen), see more at the entry *b-laŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʈaŋ˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

  (file)

Proper noun

trăng • (𢁋, 𣎞, 𦝄)

1. (literary) the Moon

   Synonym: Mặt Trăng

Derived terms

• mặt trăng; ông trăng
• trăng rằm; trăng tròn
• tuổi trăng rằm; tuổi trăng tròn