How do you say “excavate” in Vietnamese?

“Excavate” in Vietnamese is khai quật (to exhume).

Vietnamese words for “excavate”

• khai quậtListenverb
  Hanoi [xaːj˧˧ kwət̚˧˨ʔ] · Saigon [kʰaːj˧˧ wək̚˨˩˨]khai level quật heavy

  to exhume; to excavate

  for “excavate” meaning: To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.

Related Vietnamese words

• đào bớiListenverb

  to dig; to excavate

• đàoListennoun

  peach

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.