Definition

1. Noun:
   • Hay: Dried grass or other plants that have been cut and stored to be used as animal feed, especially for livestock like cattle and horses.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Nông dân đang thu hoạch cỏ khô cho mùa đông. (The farmers are harvesting hay for the winter.)
  • Những con ngựa đang ăn cỏ khô trong chuồng. (The horses are eating hay in the stable.)

Advanced Usage

• "Đống cỏ khô": A haystack; a large pile of hay.

  • Những đống cỏ khô cao nằm rải rác trên cánh đồng. (Tall haystacks are scattered across the field.)

• "Mùa cắt cỏ khô": Haymaking season; the time for cutting and drying grass to make hay.

  • Tháng Sáu thường là mùa cắt cỏ khô. (June is usually the haymaking season.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cỏ tươi (noun): Fresh grass; grass that is still growing and green.
• Rơm (noun): Straw; the dried stalks of grain plants like rice or wheat, often used for bedding or fodder, but distinct from hay.

Synonyms

• Foin (noun, from French): Hay. This is a direct loanword used in some historical or specialized contexts in Vietnamese.
• Thức ăn khô cho gia súc: Dry fodder for livestock. (This is a descriptive phrase, not a single-word synonym.)

Related Phrases

• Phơi cỏ khô: To dry hay; to spread cut grass in the sun to dry.
  • Họ phải phơi cỏ khô vài ngày nắng trước khi chất đống. (They have to dry the hay for several sunny days before stacking it.)

Related Idioms

• "Chuyện cỏ khô": Literally "hay matter"; an idiom referring to a trivial, unimportant, or dry/boring story or matter.
  • Đừng kể cho tôi nghe mấy chuyện cỏ khô ấy. (Don't tell me those trivial/boring stories.)

noun

1. Hay