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.
báo sư tử (Vietnamese): a puma; a cougar
Ancestry of “báo sư tử”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Vietnamese | báo | a leopard; a spotted panther; a jaguar or a snow... |
| 2 | Chinese | 豹 | — |
| 3 | Chinese | 駁 | — |
| 4 | Proto-Sino-Tibetan | *prawk | — |