ngủ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngu"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from Kra-Dai, compare Baha ŋu¹¹ (“to sleep”) and Proto-Hlai *hŋuːɦ (“to sleep, to lie down”) (whence ŋow²~kaw²~kʰoː²~kɔː² across modern lects and Jiamao ŋɔ⁴).

Some of the conservative Vietic languages (namely, Thavung) use the cognates of the Vietnamese word nằm (“to lie”) with semantic extension to "to sleep", along with "to lie".

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋu˧˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋʊw˧˨]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ŋʊw˨˩˦]
Audio (Saigon): (file)

Verb

ngủ • (㬳, 𥄭, 𥄬, 𪿀)

(intransitive) to sleep
đi ngủ ― to go to bed/sleep

ngủ gật/gục ― to doze

ngủ trưa ― to nap at noon

ngủ nướng ― to sleep in

ngủ với ― to sleep with

Derived terms

Noun

(classifier giấc) ngủ • (㬳, 𥄭, 𥄬, 𪿀)

sleep