ăn
Vietnamese
pron
Definitions
- to eat
- (rare)
- to dine; to feast, to attend a feast, to celebrate, to commemorate
- to eat with (a utensil)
- to smoke (tobacco); to chew (tobacco, paan)
- (literally) to consume
- to pick up (a passenger, cargo)
- to endure (a punishment)
- to enjoy, to benefit from, to earn, to win (money, a salary, roses, a prize)
- to empty into (a body of water)
- to be subordinated to; to belong to (an administrative area)
- to have an effect, to work
- to be equivalent to, to be worth (a quantity denominated in a smaller unit)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Vietic *ʔan.
Origin
Proto-Vietic
*ʔan
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cha Vietnamese
- chế độ Vietnamese
- chế độ ăn kiêng Vietnamese
- con Vietnamese
- ghen Vietnamese
- ghen ăn tức ở Vietnamese
- khát Vietnamese
- kiêng Vietnamese
- kiến Vietnamese
- lông Vietnamese
- lỗ Vietnamese
- mặn Vietnamese
- ngon Vietnamese
- ngon ăn Vietnamese
- nước Vietnamese
- phở Vietnamese
- thú Vietnamese
- thú ăn kiến Vietnamese
- thức Vietnamese
- thức ăn Vietnamese
- tức Vietnamese
- ăn lông ở lỗ Vietnamese
- ăn phở Vietnamese
- đời Vietnamese
- đời cha ăn mặn, đời con khát nước Vietnamese
- ở Vietnamese
- *ʔan Proto-Vietic