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  1. 1.old variant of 腊[là]
  1. 1.ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month
  2. 2.the 12th lunar month
  3. 3.(bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
  1. 1.dried meat
  2. 2.also pr. [xí]

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  1. 1.dried meat
  2. 2.to make dry
  3. 3.dried or cracked skin
  4. 4.year-end sacrifice to the gods
  5. 5.twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
  6. 6.dried preserved meat; cured meat

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *raːb): semantic ⺼ (“meat”) + phonetic 巤 (OC *rab). Uncertain. * Bodde (1975) cites Zheng Xuan's comment on the relation between 臘 (OC *raːb, “year-end sacrifice”) and 獵 (OC *rab, “hunt”); * Boltz (1979) instead relates it to a much later word written with the same phonetic & meaning "to cut off, to terminate" (of a year); * Schuessler (2007) proposes an alternative Sino-Tibetan etymology: just as the 葉 (OC *hljeb, *leb) word-family encompasses the meanings "leaf > foliage, year, generation"; so the root *râp "new year, change of year" is apparently a parallel etymon, which also is cognate with Tibetan རབས། (rabs, “generation”) (Bodman, 1980).

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