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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Pronunciation
  • 1.4 Noun
    • 1.4.1 Derived terms
    • 1.4.2 Descendants
  • 1.5 Pronoun
  • 1.6 See also

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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: thay, thây, thấy, and thẩy

Vietnamese

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Alternative forms

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• (Northern Vietnam, obsolete in writing) thày

Etymology

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Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 舍賴 (MC syaeH lajH) (modern SV: xả lại), ultimately from Old Chinese 師 (OC *srij) (B-S) (SV: sư).

The written form thày used to be common in the Northern dialects, now mostly eradicated in writing, although the pronunciation itself likely still remains in less mainstream Northern dialects.

Pronunciation

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• (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tʰəj˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA(key): [tʰəj˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA(key): [tʰəj˨˩]

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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Noun

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thầy • (柴, 偨, 師)

1. male teacher Synonym: thầy giáo Coordinate term: cô giáo
2. (dated, now literary) teacher Muốn sang thì bắc cầu kiềuMuốn con hay chữ thì yêu lấy thầyIf you want to cross a river, build a bridgeIf you want your children educated, love (and marry) a teacher.
3. (Northern Vietnam, somewhat dated) father thầy mẹ/u ― parents
4. (only in compounds) Buddhist monk; expert thầy cãi ― lawyer thầy lang ― practitioner of East Asian alternative medicine

Derived terms

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• cơm thầy cơm cô
• người gầy thầy cơm
• thầy bà
• thầy bói
• thầy bói xem voi
• thầy cả
• thầy cãi
• thầy chùa
• thầy có của, sãi có công
• thầy cô
• thầy cung thầy cò
• thầy dòng
• thầy dùi
• thầy địa
• thầy địa lí
• thầy đồ
• thầy giáo
• thầy hù
• thầy lang
• thầy mo
• thầy nào tớ ấy
• thầy nào trò nấy
• thầy thuốc
• thầy tớ
• thầy tuồng
• thấy pháp

Descendants

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• → Khmer: ថី (thəy)

Pronoun

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thầy

1. I/me, your male teacher
2. you, my male teacher
3. he/him, that male teacher we're talking about
4. (Northern Vietnam, somewhat dated) I/me, your father
5. (Northern Vietnam, somewhat dated) you, my father
6. (Northern Vietnam, somewhat dated) he/him, your/my father

See also

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• mẹ; u (“mother”)
• cô (“female teacher”)

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