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流离

流離
liú

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liú
  1. 1.homeless and miserable
  2. 2.forced to leave home and wander from place to place
  3. 3.to live as a refugee

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  1. 1.a kind of blue and translucent natural precious stone, probably lapis lazuli
  2. 2.coloured glaze similar to this kind of stone
  3. 3.synonym of 玻璃 (“glass”)
  4. 4.lamp made from glass
  5. 5.any translucent object
  6. 6.dragonfly
  7. 7.to wander about homeless; to live as a refugee

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Etymology

From an unidentified language in the Western Regions, perhaps a Middle Indo-Aryan language, e.g. Gandhari 𐨬𐨅𐨜𐨂𐨪𐨁𐨩 (veḍuriya), a form attested in as a component in a proper noun. Compare Pali veḷuriya (“precious stone, maybe lapis lazuli”), Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya, “cat's-eye, beryl”), whence Chinese 吠瑠璃 (fèiliúlí). The Middle Chinese reflex may have been subjected to hyperthesis with the ḍ- and r- syllables exchanged, with further ḍ > l (Ji, 1998v4).

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