bôn

Thân thiện

Nghe tiếng gọi, nó bôn ngay về nhà.

Definition

Verb: - To rush, to hurry, to move quickly and urgently: To move or act with great speed, often due to a sense of urgency or emergency. It implies a focused, determined, and sometimes frantic movement towards a destination or goal.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy bôn về nhà ngay khi nhận được tin. (He rushed home as soon as he got the news.)
  • Để kịp giờ, chúng tôi phải bôn ra sân bay. (To be on time, we had to hurry to the airport.)
  • Tên trộm bôn qua con hẻm tối. (The thief fled through the dark alley.)

Advanced Usage

• "bôn tẩu": To flee, to run away (often from danger or trouble). This is a more literary or formal compound.
  • Sau thất bại, hắn phải bôn tẩu khắp nơi. (After the defeat, he had to flee everywhere.)
• "bôn ba": To travel extensively, to roam around (often for work or life experiences). This compound emphasizes movement across many places.
  • Cuộc đời bôn ba vất vả của người lao động xa xứ. (The hard, peripatetic life of migrant workers.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bôn rôn (adj): Restless, fidgety, unable to sit still (often from excitement or anxiety).
  • Đứa trẻ bôn rôn chờ đến lượt mình. (The child was fidgety waiting for his turn.)
• Chạy bôn (verb phrase): To run errands, to work as a courier or runner. This is a colloquial term.
  • Công việc của anh ta là chạy bôn giao hàng. (His job is running errands delivering goods.)

Synonyms

• Chạy vội: To run hurriedly.
• Vội vã: To be in a hurry, to hasten.
• Phóng: To dash, to sprint.
• Tẩu thoát: To escape, to flee (more formal).

Notes on Usage

• The word "bôn" is considered somewhat literary or formal in modern Vietnamese and is not as commonly used in everyday casual speech as words like "chạy vội" or "vội vã".
• It often carries a connotation of urgency, sometimes even desperation or flight, as seen in the reference definition "fuir" (to flee).
• It is frequently found in fixed compounds like "bôn tẩu" and "bôn ba", which are more common than the standalone verb.

Học thuật

verb

1. To rush
   • bôn nhanh về phía trước
     to rush forward