Where does “báo sư tử” come from?

báo sư tử (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese báo, from Chinese 豹, from Chinese 駁, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk — to be speckled, variegated, spotted.

báo sư tử (Vietnamese): a puma; a cougar

Definitions

  1. a puma; a cougar

Ancestry of “báo sư tử”, step by step

báo sư tử traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese báo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebáoa leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow...
2Chinese豹—
3Chinese駁—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetan*prawkto be speckled, variegated, spotted

via Vietnamese sư tử

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesesư tửlion
2Chinese獅子lion; bodhisattva; Short for 石獅子／石狮子
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk →Every word from Chinese 駁 →Every word from Chinese 豹 →