Where does “bầu rượu” come from?

bầu rượu (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese bầu, from Chinese 匏.

bầu rượu (Vietnamese): a wine gourd (a hollowed out gourd used to store beverages like wine)

Definitions

  1. a wine gourd (a hollowed out gourd used to store beverages like wine)

Ancestry of “bầu rượu”, step by step

bầu rượu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese bầu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesebầugourd; a space of something; pregnancy
2Chinese匏—

via Vietnamese rượu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnameserượurice alcohol; non-beer alcohol
2Proto-Vieticraːwʔ—
Every word from Chinese 匏 →Every word from Vietnamese bầu →