nhanh

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *m-laɲ (“fast, quick”). Cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] lɛɲ¹. Doublet of lanh.

Trần Trọng Dương (2013)[1] proposes that ma lanh is also a cognate.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nhanh • (伶, 姈)

  1. fast; quick
    Synonyms: chóng, lẹ, mau
    Nó nhanh lắm. ― He is very fast.

Adverb

nhanh • (伶, 姈)

  1. fast; quickly

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “Giải mã những câu thơ sáu chữ trong Quốc âm thi tập từ ngả đường ngữ âm học lịch sử [Deciphering hexasyllabic verses in the Quốc âm thi tập from a historic phonological perspective]”, in Tạp chí Hán Nôm‎[1] (in Vietnamese), volume 1, 2013, archived from the original on 2 August 2021
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