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chàm

Một người thợ nhuộm nhúng tấm vải vào chậu nước chàm.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • Indigo plant: A plant of the bean family, whose leaves are used to produce a dark blue dye.
    • Indigo dye: The dark blue dye produced from the leaves of the indigo plant.
    • Eczema: A medical condition causing inflamed, itchy, and sometimes blistering skin, often seen in infants.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Indigo plant):
    • Người dân tộc trồng chàm để lấy nhuộm vải. (The ethnic people grow indigo to get leaves for dyeing fabric.)
  • Noun (Indigo dye):
    • Chiếc váy được nhuộm chàm rất đẹp. (The dress dyed with indigo is very beautiful.)
    • Mặt anh ấy tái nhợt, như chàm đổ. (His face was pale, as if splashed with indigo [idiom for a livid complexion].)
  • Noun (Eczema):
    • Em bé bị chàmhai . (The baby has eczema on both cheeks.)
Advanced Usage
  • "mặt như chàm đổ": An idiom describing a face that is extremely pale or livid, as if splashed with dark indigo dye.
    • Nghe tin dữ, mặt ông ấy như chàm đổ. (Upon hearing the bad news, his face turned ashen.)
  • "tay đã nhúng chàm": A figurative phrase meaning to be deeply involved in or stained by wrongdoing (similar to "having blood on one's hands").
    • Hắn kẻ tay đã nhúng chàm, không thể rửa sạch tội lỗi. (He is someone deeply stained by crime; his sins cannot be washed away.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Cây chàm: Indigo plant.
  • Thuốc chàm: Indigo dye/paste; or medicine for treating eczema.
  • Nhuộm chàm: To dye with indigo.
  • Vải chàm: Indigo-dyed fabric.
  • Bệnh chàm: Eczema (the disease).
Synonyms
  • Chàm (as dye): Chỉ lam (a literary term for indigo blue).
  • Chàm (as eczema): Viêm da địa, chàm sữa (specifically for infantile eczema).
Related Phrases
  • Chàm trổ: (Verb) For eczema to appear or flare up on the skin.
    • Trời nóng khiến bệnh chàm trổ nhiều hơn. (The hot weather causes the eczema to flare up more.)
  • () Chàm mình: (Verb, archaic) To tattoo the body, historically sometimes using indigo-based ink.
    • Người xưa tục chàm mình. (People in the past had the custom of tattooing their bodies.)
chàm

Một người thợ nhuộm nhúng tấm vải vào chậu nước chàm.

noun
  1. anil, Indigo plant
  2. Eczema