kiết

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kiət̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kiək̚˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kiək̚˦˥]

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *[t]kiit ~ [t]kiət (“dysentery”). Cognate with Mon ထကိတ် (həkit, “dysentery”).

kiết

1. (pathology) dysentery

• kiết lị‎ (“dysentery”)
• đi kiết (“to have dysentery”)
• kiết bạch (“dysentery with diarrhoea that becomes white with mucus”)
• kiết máu (“dysentery with blood in the stools”)
• táo kiết (“constipation”)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 拮 (“poor”).

kiết

1. poor, short of money, penniless
2. stingy, miserly

• kiết cú (“indigent, poor, penniless”)
• kiết xác (“very poor, destitute”)
• keo kiết (“stingy, miserly”)