nhà tu

Vietnamese

Etymology

nhà +‎ tu (修)

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˨˩ tu˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˦˩ tʊw˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɲaː˨˩ tʊw˧˧]

Noun

(religion) a convent; a friar, a monk [1]

References

Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995) “nhà tu”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 389

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