Definition

1. Verb:
   • To attend a funeral procession; to accompany a coffin to the burial place: "đưa ma" refers to the act of participating in a funeral, walking with the procession to escort the deceased to their final resting place.
   • To see someone off (in a broader, sometimes figurative sense): In informal contexts, it can be used to mean seeing someone off on a journey, often with a humorous or slightly irreverent tone.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Hàng xóm và bạn bè đều đến để đưa ma ông ấy. (Neighbors and friends all came to attend his funeral procession.)
  • Anh ấy nói đùa: "Tôi sẽ đi đưa ma cậu ra sân bay." (He joked: "I'll go see you off at the airport." [Literally: "I'll attend your funeral to the airport."])

Advanced Usage

• "Đi đưa ma": to go to a funeral; to attend a funeral procession.

  • Cả gia đình tôi đều đi đưa ma bà ngoại. (My whole family went to my grandmother's funeral.)

• Used informally among friends to mean "to accompany someone leaving," often for a trivial reason, playing on the word's primary meaning.

  • Thôi, tôi đưa ma cậu về đến đây thôi, tôi phải quay lại làm việc. (Alright, I'll just see you off here, I have to go back to work.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đám ma (n): funeral, funeral ceremony.

  • Đám ma được tổ chức rất trang trọng. (The funeral was held very solemnly.)

• Tang lễ (n): funeral rites, obsequies (more formal term).

  • Tang lễ sẽ diễn ra vào sáng thứ Bảy. (The funeral rites will take place on Saturday morning.)

• Tiễn đưa (v): to see off, to bid farewell (a more general and neutral term for farewells).

  • Chúng tôi đến sân bay để tiễn đưa cô ấy. (We went to the airport to see her off.)

Synonyms

• Theo đám tang: to follow the funeral.
• Hộ tống linh cữu: to escort the coffin (more formal/literary).

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Đưa tiễn: to see someone off (a compound combining "đưa" and "tiễn").
  • Họ ra bến xe để đưa tiễn tôi. (They went to the bus station to see me off.)

Related Idioms

• Đưa người về nơi an nghỉ cuối cùng: to escort someone to their final resting place (a respectful euphemism).
  • Chúng tôi thành kính đưa người về nơi an nghỉ cuối cùng. (We reverently escorted the deceased to their final resting place.)

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