be
/bi:/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
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.
Adjective:
- Beige: A pale, sandy fawn color, similar to light brown or cream.
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
- Wine flask
- rượu ngon chẳng quản be sànhgood wine does not mind a terracotta flask
adj
- Beige
- chiếc áo mưa màu bea beige raincoat
verb
- To build mud embankments on
- To surround with hands top of heaped vessel (to secure the fullest measure)
- lấy tay be miệng đấu khi đong đỗto surround the top of a measure with one's hands while measuring beans