cửa tiệm

Vietnamese

Etymology

cửa +‎ tiệm.

The usage of cửa (“door”) here, as well as in cửa hàng, cửa hiệu, likely started out as a classifier, but has become fixed and idiomatic so that it is no longer seen as a noun phrase consisting of classifier + noun by native speakers.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kɨə˧˩ tiəm˧˨ʔ]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kɨə˧˨ tiəm˨˩ʔ]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kɨə˨˩˦ tim˨˩˨]

Noun

cửa tiệm

  1. store, shop

See also

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