cù lao

Etymology 1
Of origin, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) river island, ait
 * 2) small island, islet

Noun

 * 1)  labor, toil, drudgery
 * 2) * Anonymous, included in 1999, Mã Giang Lân (compiler), Tục ngữ và ca dao Việt Nam (Vietnamese proverbs and folk-ballads), (Vietnam Education Publishing House), 5th edition
 * Bớt đồng thì bớt cù lao, Bớt ăn, bớt uống thì tao bớt làm.
 * Less pay, then less toil; Less food, less water, then less I'll work.
 * 1) * 15th century, (attributed),  (Family Training Ode), lines 99-100
 * "vi"

- Cù lao đội đức cao dày, Phải lo hiếu kính đêm ngày khăng khăng!

Usage notes
Sino-Vietnamese cù lao meaning "toil" is now only found in idioms or