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Người nông dân trồng cây bần ở vùng nước lợ.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • Cork tree (Sonneratia caseolaris): A type of mangrove tree commonly found in brackish water areas, with distinctive aerial roots (pneumatophores) that protrude above the mud.
   • Cork (material): The light, buoyant, and elastic material harvested from the bark of the cork oak tree (Quercus suber), often used to make stoppers.

2. Adjective:

   • Poor, impoverished: Lacking sufficient money or material possessions; living in poverty.
   • Stingy, miserly (colloquial): Unwilling to spend money; mean.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Cork tree):

  • Rừng bần ven biển giúp chống xói mòn. (The coastal mangrove forest of cork trees helps prevent erosion.)
  • Nút chai thường được làm từ bần. (Bottle stoppers are often made from cork.)

• Noun (Material):

  • Chiếc phao được làm bằng bần. (The float is made of cork.)

• Adjective (Poor):

  • Gia đình ông ấy trước kia rất bần. (His family was very poor in the past.)
  • "Cờ bạc là bác thằng bần." (Tục ngữ: Gambling is the master of the poor man.)

• Adjective (Stingy):

  • Đừng có bần thế, mời người ta cốc nước đi. (Don't be so stingy, offer them a glass of water.)

Advanced Usage

• "cảnh bần" / "cảnh bần hàn": A state of poverty or destitution.

  • Sau chiến tranh, nhiều người rơi vào cảnh bần hàn. (After the war, many people fell into destitution.)

• "bần cùng": Extremely poor, impoverished to the utmost degree.

  • Sự bần cùng đôi khi dẫn đến tội ác. (Extreme poverty sometimes leads to crime.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bần nông (noun): Poor peasant; a farmer with little or no land.
• Bần tiện (adjective): Despicable, vile, base (often referring to character or behavior, not just poverty).
• Bần hàn (adjective): Impoverished, needy.
• Nhà bần (noun): A poor house; a shack.

Synonyms

• Nghèo (adj): Poor (the most common and neutral synonym).
• Túng thiếu (adj): Needy, in difficult circumstances.
• Keo kiệt (adj): Stingy, miserly (synonym for the colloquial meaning).
• Bủn xỉn (adj): Stingy, tight-fisted (colloquial).

Related Phrases

• "Bần cùng sinh đạo tặc" (Idiom): Poverty gives birth to thieves; extreme need can drive people to crime.
• "Thằng bần" (Noun phrase): A poor fellow/wretch (can be derogatory).

Học thuật

noun

1. Cork
   • nút bần
     a cork

adj

1. Poor