chàm

Definition

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 lá 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 chàm ở hai má. (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 là 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

Synonyms

Chàm (as dye): Chỉ lam (a literary term for indigo blue).
Chàm (as eczema): Viêm da cơ 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.)
(Cũ) Chàm mình: (Verb, archaic) To tattoo the body, historically sometimes using indigo-based ink.
- Người xưa có tục chàm mình. (People in the past had the custom of tattooing their bodies.)

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