bảnh mắt
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Just awake, eyes barely open: Describes the state of having just woken up, when one's eyes are barely open or still heavy with sleep.
- Very early (in the morning): Describes the very early part of the day, often at dawn or just after sunrise.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Bảnh mắt đã đòi ăn. (Just awake, he already cried for food.)
- Trời mùa hè, mới bảnh mắt đã oi ả. (In summer, it gets sultry very early in the morning.)
- Sáng bảnh mắt. (It is bright daylight / It is very early in the morning and already bright.)
Advanced Usage
- "Mới bảnh mắt": Used to emphasize that something happens immediately upon waking or at the crack of dawn.
- Mới bảnh mắt, nó đã chạy đi chơi. (Just after waking up, he already ran off to play.)
- "Sáng bảnh mắt": Can describe the early morning light or the fact that it is already fully daylight, often implying it's time to be up.
- Sáng bảnh mắt mà còn ngủ. (It's broad daylight and he's still sleeping.)
Variants and Related Words
- Bảnh (adj, dialectal): Can mean "open" or "spread out," often used in combination with other words like "bảnh mắt."
- Mở mắt (verb phrase): To open one's eyes. While related, "mở mắt" is a general action, whereas "bảnh mắt" describes a specific, groggy state.
Synonyms
- Mới ngủ dậy: Just got out of bed.
- Tờ mờ sáng: At dawn, in the dim morning light.
- Vừa thức dậy: Just woke up.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Ngủ chưa đã bảnh mắt: To wake up before feeling fully rested, to be rudely awakened.
- Điện thoại reo, tôi ngủ chưa đã bảnh mắt. (The phone rang, I was awakened before I was ready.)
- Chưa bảnh mắt: Not yet fully awake; still sleepy.
- Anh ấy chưa bảnh mắt nên chẳng nói gì. (He wasn't fully awake yet, so he didn't say anything.)
- Just awake, very early
- bảnh mắt đã đòi ănjust awake, he already cried for food
- trời mùa hè, mới bảnh mắt đã oi ảin summer, it gets sultry very early
- sáng bảnh mắtit is bright daylight