bù nhìn

== Vietnamese == === Alternative forms === bồ nhìn mồ dìn mù dìn === Etymology === From earlier mù nhìn, attested in Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義) as 戊忍 (MC muwH nyinX) (modern SV: mậu nhẫn). Vũ Đức Nghiệu (2019) relates the prefixal element bù to bồ ~ mồ - also found in bồ nâu (“dioscorea cirrhosa, dyeing yam”), bồ quân (“flacourtia jangomas, Indian coffee plum”), bồ hóng (“soot”), bồ hòn (“western soapberry (Sapindus saponaria) ← Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukorossi)”), etc. Additionally, he derives that prefixal element from an etymon with initial *ɓ-. === Pronunciation === (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓu˨˩ ɲin˨˩] (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓʊw˦˩ ɲin˦˩] (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓʊw˨˩ ɲɨn˨˩] === Noun === (classifier con) bù nhìn scarecrow Synonym: bẹo chim (figuratively, politics) puppet