trẻ
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as ⿺礼亇, composed of 亇 + 礼 (MC lejX) (modern SV: cá lễ), 礼 (MC lejX) (modern SV: lễ) and 里 (MC liX) (modern SV: lí). Attested as tlẻ in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).
Sometimes connected to Chinese 稚 (MC drijH) (SV: trĩ) but this can now be rejected based on the *kl- cluster in Old Vietnamese.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]trẻ • (礼, , , 𥘷, 里, 稚, 穉, 雉, 𪨅, 𱚫)
- (of humans) young
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Noun
[edit](classifier đứa) trẻ • (礼, , , 𥘷, 里, 稚, 穉, 雉, 𪨅, 𱚫)
- (slightly formal) a child
- Anh đã mơ về ngôi nhà và những đứa trẻ.
- I've dreamed of our house and our children.
Noun
[edit]trẻ • (礼, , , 𥘷, 里, 稚, 穉, 雉, 𪨅, 𱚫)
- young children; infants
- trẻ tự kỉ ― autistic children
- dành cho trẻ dưới 3 tuổi ― for children 3 years old and below
References
[edit]- "trẻ" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
- Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)