đồng bóng

== Vietnamese == === Etymology === đồng (“medium”) +‎ bóng (“shamaness, female occultist”); the second element is obsolete and seems to be fossilized in this compound, obsolete compound bóng cốt, and phrasal verb hầu bóng. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˦] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˧˥] ~ [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˦˩ ʔɓɔŋ˦˧˥] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɗəwŋ͡m˨˩ ʔɓawŋ͡m˦˥] === Noun === đồng bóng (religion) a spirit medium in Vietnamese folk religion === Adjective === đồng bóng fickle; capricious; mercurial