bẹt

Thân thiện

Chiếc lon nước ngọt bị xe chạy qua bẹt dúm.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Flat and wide; flattened: Describes an object that has lost its original three-dimensional shape, becoming broad and thin, often due to pressure or impact.
   • Elongated and flat: Describes a shape that is long and flat, like a stretched rectangle.

2. Verb (in the phrase "đập bẹt"):

   • To flatten; to squash: To crush or press something until it becomes flat.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • Giày mũi bẹt. (Shoes with a flat toe cap.)
  • Bàn chân bẹt. (A flat foot.)
  • Hình chữ nhật bẹt. (An elongated/flat rectangle.)
  • Cá bẹt. (Flatfish, like sole.)

• Verb:

  • Đập bẹt ra. (To flatten it out.)

Advanced Usage

• "góc bẹt": (Mathematics) a straight angle (180 degrees).

  • Tổng của hai góc vuông là một góc bẹt. (The sum of two right angles is a straight angle.)

• "bèn bẹt": (Reduplication, softened meaning) slightly flat.

  • Cái gối cũ nên hơi bèn bẹt. (The pillow is old so it's a bit flat.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dẹt (adj): Also means flat or flattened. Often interchangeable with "bẹt," though "dẹt" can sometimes imply being flattened from the side.
  • Ống nước bị dẹt. (The water pipe is crushed flat.)

Synonyms

• Flat: Having a level, even surface.
• Flattened: Made flat by pressure.
• Squashed: Crushed flat.
• Aplati (French loan context): Flattened.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Đánh bẹt: To strike something flat; to refute an argument completely (figurative).

  • Anh ấy đánh bẹt mọi lập luận của đối thủ. (He completely refuted all of his opponent's arguments.)

• Nằm bẹp/bẹt: To lie down flat (often from exhaustion or defeat).

  • Về đến nhà, nó nằm bẹt ra giường. (Upon getting home, he collapsed flat onto the bed.)

Học thuật

1. Flop
   • rơi đánh bẹt một cái
     to fall with a flop

adj

1. Flat
   • giày mũi bẹt
     shoes with a flat toecap
   • bàn chân bẹt
     a flat foot
   • đập bẹt ra
     to flatten
2. Elongated
   • hình chữ nhật bẹt
     an elongated rectangle