bốc
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Verb:
- To scoop or pick up with the hand(s): To take a loose or granular substance using one's hand or hands, often in a cupping motion.
- To dispense or make up (medicine): To measure and gather ingredients, specifically herbal medicines, according to a prescription.
- To draw or pick (a card, lot): To randomly select an item, such as a playing card or a lot in a draw.
- To exhume and relocate (remains): To dig up and move bones or remains to a different burial place.
Verb (extended usage):
- To rise or soar (of flames, dust, emotions): To move upwards vigorously and spread out, like fire, dust, or strong feelings.
- To be overly enthusiastic or exaggerated: To act or speak in an excessively excited or inflated manner.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Anh ấy bốc một nắm gạo. (He scoops up a handful of rice.)
- Thầy thuốc đang bốc thuốc cho bệnh nhân. (The herbalist is making up medicine for the patient.)
- Mỗi người chơi bốc một lá bài. (Each player draws a card.)
- Gia đình sẽ bốc mộ ông vào năm tới. (The family will exhume and relocate the grandfather's remains next year.)
- Verb (extended usage):
- Ngọn lửa bốc cao vì gió. (The flames soared high because of the wind.)
- Cơn tức giận bốc lên đột ngột. (A sudden anger rose up.)
- Anh ấy nói chuyện hơi bốc. (He talks in a slightly exaggerated way.)
Advanced Usage
- "bốc đầu xe máy": To pop a wheelie (on a motorcycle).
- Anh thanh niên bốc đầu xe máy rất nguy hiểm. (The young man popping a wheelie on his motorcycle is very dangerous.)
- "bốc đồ" (slang): To shoplift, to steal.
- Tên trộm bị bắt quả tang khi đang bốc đồ trong siêu thị. (The thief was caught red-handed while shoplifting in the supermarket.)
Variants and Related Words
- Ăn bốc (v): To eat with one's hands/fingers.
- Ở một số nền văn hoá, người ta thường ăn bốc. (In some cultures, people often eat with their hands.)
- Bốc phét (v, colloquial): To brag, to talk big.
- Đừng nghe anh ta, anh ta chỉ thích bốc phét thôi. (Don't listen to him, he just likes to brag.)
- Bốc hơi (v): To evaporate; (colloquial) to disappear suddenly.
- Nước bốc hơi dưới ánh nắng. (The water evaporates under the sunlight.)
- Sau vụ scandal, ngôi sao đó gần như bốc hơi khỏi làng giải trí. (After the scandal, that star almost vanished from the entertainment industry.)
Synonyms
- Scoop: To pick up with a cupped hand.
- Dispense: To prepare and give out (medicine).
- Draw: To select at random.
- Exhume: To dig up (a body).
- Soar/Rise: To fly or go up high and quickly.
Related Idioms
- "Nóng bốc hỏa": To be furious, to see red (literally: hot enough to burst into flames).
- Nghe tin đó, ông ấy nóng bốc hỏa. (Hearing that news, he was furious.)
- "Bốc thuốc": To prepare herbal medicine; can be used metaphorically to mean "to prescribe a solution" (often complex or harsh).
- Ông thầy lang già đang bốc thuốc. (The old herbalist is preparing the medicine.)
- Ông sếp mới bốc cho nhân viên một thang thuốc đắng với chỉ tiêu cao. (The new boss prescribed a bitter pill for the employees with high targets.)
verb
- To pick up in one's hands, to scoop up with one's hands
- bốc một nắm muốito take a handful of salt
- bốc bùnto scoop up mud in one's hands
- ăn bốc, không dùng thìa đũato eat with one's fingers, without using a spoon or chopsticks
- To make up (một đơn thuốc bắc)
- thầy lang kê đơn bốc thuốcthe herbalist writes out a prescription and makes it up
- To draw (lá bài, que thăm)
- bốc quân bàito draw a card
- bốc thămto draw lots
- To exhume and move (hài cốt) to another place