How do you say “knap” in Vietnamese?

“Knap” in Vietnamese is ghè (to knap).

Vietnamese words for “knap”

• ghèListenverb
  Hanoi [ɣɛ˨˩] · Saigon [ɣɛ˨˩]ghè falling

  to knap; to beat up

  for “knap” meaning: To break away flakes from (a brittle material which fractures conchoidally (“with planar concentric curves”), usually a mineral such as chert, flint, or obsidian), often to form a tool with a sharp ed

Related Vietnamese words

• đập vỡListenverb

  to shatter; to break into pieces; to smash

• gòListennoun

  mound; knoll

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.