tuồng

Vietnamese

Etymology

The more original meaning word was "look; appearance", which then extended to the performance art due to the performers' eye-catching costumes; hát tuồng therefore can be understood as "costume singing" or "vocal performance with costumes".

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tuəŋ˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tuəŋ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tuəŋ˨˩]

Noun

tuồng • (從, 傱, 㗰, 象, 像)

(colloquial) look; appearance; mien
(by extension) classical Vietnamese opera (hát tuồng)
(derogatory) sort; kind (of person)

Derived terms

hát tuồng
như tuồng
ra tuồng
tuồng đồ
tuồng như

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