làm cỏ

Vietnamese

Etymology

làm (to do) +‎ cỏ (grass).

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [laːm˨˩ kɔ˧˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [laːm˦˩ kɔ˧˨]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [laːm˨˩ kɔ˨˩˦]

Verb

làm cỏ

  1. to weed
  2. (figurative) to massacre, to ransack, to exterminate