"lươn" meaning in All languages combined

See lươn on Wiktionary

Adjective [Vietnamese]

IPA: [lɨən˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [lɨəŋ˧˧] [Huế], [lɨəŋ˧˧] (note: Saigon)
Etymology: From Proto-Vietic *-laːɲ. Cognate with Muong Bi lươnh. Compare Lamet [Nkris] tǝlaːɲ. Etymology templates: {{inh|vi|mkh-vie-pro|*-laːɲ}} Proto-Vietic *-laːɲ, {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong, {{cog|lbn|-}} Lamet Head templates: {{head|vi|adjective|||||||head=|tr=}} lươn, {{vi-adj}} lươn
  1. (colloquial, of a person) Short for lươn lẹo (“sly, mischievous”). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial Alternative form of: lươn lẹo (extra: sly, mischievous)
    Sense id: en-lươn-vi-adj-Ym3TwhrS Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 41 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 41 34

Noun [Vietnamese]

IPA: [lɨən˧˧] [Hà-Nội], [lɨəŋ˧˧] [Huế], [lɨəŋ˧˧] (note: Saigon) Forms: con [classifier], [CJK], 𧐖 [CJK], 𩽥 [CJK], 𩷕 [CJK], [CJK], [CJK]
Etymology: From Proto-Vietic *-laːɲ. Cognate with Muong Bi lươnh. Compare Lamet [Nkris] tǝlaːɲ. Etymology templates: {{inh|vi|mkh-vie-pro|*-laːɲ}} Proto-Vietic *-laːɲ, {{cog|mtq|-}} Muong, {{cog|lbn|-}} Lamet Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=連, 𧐖, 𩽥, 𩷕, 鰱, 鱔}} lươn • (連, 𧐖, 𩽥, 𩷕, 鰱, 鱔), {{vi-noun|連, 𧐖, 𩽥, 𩷕, 鰱, 鱔|cls=con}} (classifier con) lươn • (連, 𧐖, 𩽥, 𩷕, 鰱, 鱔)
  1. Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus)
    Sense id: en-lươn-vi-noun-MnaY1wIb Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header, Vietnamese nouns classified by con, Eels Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 41 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 41 34 Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 22 44 34 Disambiguation of Vietnamese nouns classified by con: 16 57 27 Disambiguation of Eels: 4 89 7
  2. (by extension, colloquial) median strip, central reservation, roadway divider Tags: broadly, colloquial Synonyms: dải phân cách
    Sense id: en-lươn-vi-noun-RY4ThgW9 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 41 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 41 34
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        "Short for lươn lẹo (“sly, mischievous”)."
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (89ebc88 and e74c913). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.