đinh ba

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 釘耙 (“spiky rake”; SV: đinh bá), with Chinese 耙 (bá, “rake”) "eggcornized" by ba (“three”). Some Western rake-like cultivators do indeed have only three prongs.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɗïŋ˧˧ ʔɓaː˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɨn˧˧ ʔɓaː˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɗɨn˧˧ ʔɓaː˧˧]

Noun

(classifier cây) đinh ba

(literature, weaponry) the 九齒釘耙 (Cửu Xỉ Đinh Bá, literally “Nine-Toothed Rake”), the weapon of the magical pig man Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West
(weaponry) a trident
Synonym: ba chĩa

See also

Tây du kí
bồ cào

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