FromVietnamesebông.
(Classifier:coóc)bông (𱣩)
- cotton
- Synonym:mèn
Phên phàbông hún ún.- Thecotton blanket is warm.
bông
- unkempt;uncombed
- huabông, chảu nhoa̱i ―messy head and unkempt hair
- (of food or dirt)friable
Thúa kheo khủabông.- Green beans are boiled then roasted to the point of beingfriable.
Possibly related topoòng,pổng.
bông
- toswell; toexpand
Cáy khônbông.- The chicken's feathersswelled.
Khẩu sluybông.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Lương Bèn (2011),Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor,Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày][3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910),Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary][4] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
FromProto-Vietic*poːŋ(“flower”). Cognate withMuongpông andThavungโปง.
This word had been tentatively proposed as being connected etymologically with Hmong-Mien (Proto-Hmong-Mien*bi̯aŋ, whenceIu Mienbiangh,White Hmongpaj) or Austronesian (Proto-Austronesian*buŋa, whenceMalaybunga etc.) (for examples, Hsiu, 2017; H. Hayes, 1999, Hoàng Thị Châu, 2009). Ratliff (2017) connected the Hmong-Mien and Austronesian terms, but did not mention any Austroasiatic comparanda. In any case, the connection is not certain and might just be look-alikes.
bông• (芃,葻,𥟌,𣒾,𣜳)
- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam)bloom;flower
- Synonym:hoa
- cotton
- gấubông ―a cotton-stuffed bear
bông• (芃,葻)
- Indicates flowers.
- Synonym:đoá
- Althoughbông in the sense of "flower" has mostly been displaced byhoa in the Northern dialects,lúa(“rice plant”) is an exception in that it is most often only accompanied bybông (i.e.bông lúa,lúa trổbông, etc.) and nothoa, regardless of the dialect.
Borrowed fromFrenchbon.
bông
- (dated)coupon;voucher;bond;proof
