nhá
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɲaː˧˦]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ɲaː˨˩˦]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɲaː˦˥]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *s-ɲaːʔ (“to chew; to masticate”).
Verb
nhá (呀, 蚜)
- (especially of an old person) to chew (carefully, usually something hard to eat); to masticate
- to ring someone and then immediately hang up so that they'll call you back and get charged for you
Particle
nhá
- (colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of nhé.