nguyên cư
Definition
- Noun:
- Original domicile / Initial residence: The place where a person or family first established their permanent home or legal residence. It refers to the primary, original place of habitation from which one may have moved.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Sau nhiều năm di cư, gia đình ông ấy vẫn giữ liên lạc với nguyên cư. (After many years of migration, his family still maintains contact with their original domicile.)
- Hồ sơ pháp lý cần ghi rõ nguyên cư và nơi cư trú hiện tại. (The legal documents need to specify the initial residence and the current place of domicile.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is formal and is primarily used in legal, administrative, or historical contexts to denote a point of origin for residence, often for official record-keeping or genealogical purposes.
Variants and Related Words
Nguyên quán (n): Native place, ancestral homeland. This is a more common term for one's place of origin or family's ancestral land.
- Nguyên quán của ông ấy là ở Hà Nội. (His native place is in Hanoi.)
Thường trú (n): Permanent residence.
- Nơi thường trú của tôi khác với nguyên cư. (My permanent residence is different from my initial residence.)
Synonyms
- Original domicile: The first or primary legal residence.
- Initial residence: The place where one first resided.
Related Concepts
- Di cư (v): To migrate. This is the action of moving away from one's .
- Nhiều người đã di cư từ nguyên cư của họ đến thành phố. (Many people have migrated from their original domicile to the city.)