bao la

Thân thiện

Biển cả bao la trải dài đến tận chân trời.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Immense, vast, boundless: Describes something of extraordinarily great and seemingly limitless extent, often used for physical spaces like the sky, sea, or desert, or for abstract concepts like love or kindness.
   • Infinite, limitless: Emphasizes a quality that has no apparent boundaries or end.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Biển cả bao la. (The immense sea.)
  • Tình yêu thương bao la của mẹ. (A mother's boundless love.)
  • Cánh đồng lúa bao la. (The vast rice field.)
  • Vũ trụ bao la. (The infinite universe.)

Advanced Usage

• "bao la bát ngát": A common alliterative phrase meaning "immensely vast and expansive," used for poetic emphasis.
  • Đồng bằng bao la bát ngát. (The immensely vast plain.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mênh mông (adj): Vast, expansive. Often used interchangeably with "bao la" for physical spaces.

  • Trời cao mênh mông. (The high, vast sky.)

• Bát ngát (adj): Vast, wide, spacious. Frequently paired with "bao la."

  • Cánh đồng bát ngát. (The spacious field.)

Synonyms

• Vast: Of very great extent or size.
• Boundless: Having no boundaries or limits.
• Immense: Extremely large or great.

Related Idioms

• "Lòng bao la như biển Thái Bình": A heart as vast as the Pacific Ocean; describing someone with immense compassion and forgiveness.
  • Bà ngoại tôi có lòng bao la như biển Thái Bình. (My grandmother has a heart as vast as the Pacific Ocean.)

Học thuật

adj

1. immense, infinite, limitless
   • vũ trụ bao la
     The infinite universe
   • lòng nhân từ bao la của Chúa
     the infinite goodness of God
   • "Trời cao biển rộng, một màu bao la"
     the high sky and the wide sea are an immense blue