công chúa
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Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- (humorous) công túa
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 公主 (SV: công chủ).
In sense 2, a semantic loan from English princess, which itself is a semantic loan from Japanese 姫 (hime, “lady; princess”), whose graphic origin is the graph of Chinese 姬 (“'lady' ← 'ancestral surname of the Zhou monarchs & patrilineally related nobles'”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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