lần

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lan"

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 輪 (“circle, wheel; turn”; SV: luân). Or, alternatively, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *lən ~ *l(a)n; compare Mon လန် (lan, “time (quantifier)”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(classifier cái) lần (吝, 𠞺, 𡫫, 𨁮)

time; instance; occurrence

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