bạnh

Thân thiện

Anh ấy có khuôn mặt chữ điền với cằm bạnh.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Broad, square, or splayed: Describes a shape that is wide, square, or flared out, often used for facial features like a chin or jaw.
   • Puffed up, swollen: Describes something that is inflated or swollen, often in a specific, bulging manner.

2. Verb:

   • To flare out, to spread open, to puff up: The action of forcing something to open wide or to become swollen and broad.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Anh ta có cằm bạnh. (He has a square chin.)
  • Quai hàm bạnh vuông tạo cho anh vẻ ngoài cương nghị. (His broad, square jaws give him a resolute appearance.)

• Verb:

  • Con rắn bạnh cổ ra để đe dọa kẻ thù. (The snake puffed up its neck to threaten the enemy.)
  • Nó bạnh quai hàm ra để ngáp. (He opened his jaws wide to yawn.)

Advanced Usage

• "bạnh cổ lên cãi": (colloquial) To talk back defiantly, to argue stubbornly with one's neck puffed out (implying arrogance or defiance).
  • Đứa trẻ bạnh cổ lên cãi với mẹ. (The child talked back defiantly to his mother.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bành bạnh (adj): (reduplicative, with diminished intensity) Broadish, somewhat square, splayed out.
  • Chiếc lá có đầu bành bạnh. (The leaf has a broadish tip.)

Synonyms

• Broad: Wide from side to side.
• Square: Shaped like a square.
• Splayed: Spread out wide.
• Puffed up: Swollen, inflated.

Related Idioms

• Bạnh cổ lên cãi: To argue back obstinately; to be defiant in an argument.
  • Nó không nghe lời, cứ bạnh cổ lên cãi. (He doesn't listen and just talks back obstinately.)

Học thuật

1. Broad,square
   • Cằm bạnh
     A square chin
   • Quai hàm bạnh vuông
     Broad square jaws
   • Bành bạnh (láy, ý giảm)
     Broadish, squarish
2. Open wide with force
   • Bạnh quai hàm ra
     To open wide one's jaws
   • Bạnh cổ lên cãi (khẩu ngữ)
     To talk back