"lệ" meaning in Vietnamese

See lệ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [le˧˨ʔ] [Hà-Nội], [lej˨˩ʔ] [Huế], [lej˨˩˨] (note: Saigon)
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 淚. Compare luỵ. Etymology templates: {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|淚}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 淚 Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=}} lệ, {{vi-noun}} lệ
  1. (literary) tears (drop of clear salty liquid from the eyes) Tags: literary Categories (topical): Bodily fluids Synonyms: nước mắt
    Sense id: en-lệ-vi-noun-k33EVgIn Disambiguation of Bodily fluids: 81 10 4 5 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 32 8 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 56 24 6 14 Disambiguation of Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header: 62 23 3 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [le˧˨ʔ] [Hà-Nội], [lej˨˩ʔ] [Huế], [lej˨˩˨] (note: Saigon)
Etymology: Sino-Vietnamese word from 例. Etymology templates: {{categorize|vi|Sino-Vietnamese words}}, {{vi-etym-sino|例}} Sino-Vietnamese word from 例 Head templates: {{head|vi|noun|||head=|tr=}} lệ, {{vi-noun}} lệ
  1. (rare) example Tags: rare Synonyms: ví dụ
    Sense id: en-lệ-vi-noun-UNhY4Jhe Categories (other): Sino-Vietnamese words Disambiguation of Sino-Vietnamese words: 33 58 8
  2. (literary and in certain idioms) rule Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-lệ-vi-noun-c2mUm0fv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hợp lệ, luật lệ, ngoại lệ, thể lệ, thông lệ, thường lệ, tục lệ
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: [le˧˨ʔ] [Hà-Nội], [lej˨˩ʔ] [Huế], [lej˨˩˨] (note: Saigon)
Head templates: {{head|vi|verb|||head=|tr=}} lệ, {{vi-verb}} lệ
  1. to fear; to be afraid
    Sense id: en-lệ-vi-verb-TkXy6-yg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3
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          "text": "♂: Lệ hoen ướt khóe mi cay.\nTrong lòng anh vẫn luôn chung tình,\nChờ ngày mai, ánh nắng lên xua tan băng giá.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Vietnamese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.