rùa

Etymology
From ; cognate with 🇨🇬 arɑː. Compare Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects.

The reduplicated form rùa rùa was used until rather recently, as seen in the Cách trí giáo khoa thư (革智教科書) composed in the 1920s. This form is now obsolete, which is a trend seen with other reduplicated nouns designing animals, such as, , , with the monosyllabic root (once again) becomes the dominant form.

Noun

 * 1) turtle; tortoise