Definition

1. Noun:

   • Wine flask: A small, often round-bellied vessel with a long neck, typically made of terracotta or ceramic, used for storing and serving wine or liquor.

2. Adjective:

   • Beige: A pale, sandy fawn color, similar to light brown or cream.

3. Verb:

   • To build a low embankment: To use wet earth or mud to raise or reinforce the edge of something, such as a pond bank.
   • To surround the rim with one's hand: To cup one's hand around the top of a measuring vessel (like a bowl or bucket) while filling it, typically to obtain a heaped, generous measure.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Rượu ngon chẳng quản be sành. (Good wine does not mind a terracotta flask.)
• Adjective:
  • Chiếc áo mưa màu be. (A beige raincoat.)
• Verb:
  • Be bờ ao. (To build up the pond's banks.)
  • Lấy tay be miệng đấu khi đong đỗ. (To use one's hand to surround the rim of the measure when scooping beans.)

Advanced Usage

• "be be" (verb, reduplicated form): To bleat (the sound made by a goat or sheep).
  • Con dê kêu be be. (The goat bleated be be.)

Variants and Related Words

• Be rượu (n): A wine flask or jug.
• Be bờ (v): To embank, to build up the sides of a field or pond.

Synonyms

• Flask, jug (for the noun).
• Tan, ecru (for the color beige).
• Raise, embank (for the verb meaning to build up).
• Heap, overfill (for the verb meaning to measure generously).

Related Idioms

• Rượu ngon chẳng quản be sành: A proverb meaning "Good wine needs no bush" or "The content is more important than the container." It emphasizes that true quality is not dependent on fancy packaging.

noun

1. Wine flask
   • rượu ngon chẳng quản be sành
     good wine does not mind a terracotta flask

adj

1. Beige
   • chiếc áo mưa màu be
     a beige raincoat

verb

1. To build mud embankments on
2. To surround with hands top of heaped vessel (to secure the fullest measure)
   • lấy tay be miệng đấu khi đong đỗ
     to surround the top of a measure with one's hands while measuring beans