Tiếng Việt Tuesday - snow!

I was joking with a friend on Facebook that the Vietnamese have no word for 'snow', but many words for 'summer'.

But there is a word for snow! It's tuyết.

 Ice is băng, or nước đá which means 'water rock', or just đá if it's in your drink.

Summer is mùa hè, and even though all the seasons here are a type of summer, that's the only term in the phrasebook.

But then for 'hot', we get:



adjective
   
dâm dục: lewd, bawdy, lustful, hot, libidinous, lubricous
   
dâm đãng: hot
   
nêm gia vị: hot
   
nóng: hot, warm, forward, heated
   
cay: hot, piquant, poignant
   
nóng nải: eager, hard up, headlong, hot, hotblooded
   
động cởn: hot
   
nồng: hot
   
hăng hái: eager, keen, buoyant, corky, dashing, hot
   
nồng nhiệt: warm, hot
   
kịch liệt: intense, vehement, furious, exquisite, fiendish, hot
   
nứng: hot
   
sắc tươi quá: hot





I have never heard most of those terms. The one I'm most familiar with is

nóng, as in cà phê nóng, 'hot coffee'.

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