cỗ lòng

Mẹ tôi mua một cỗ lòng lợn để nấu tiết canh.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A set of animal entrails/viscera: Specifically refers to the complete collection of internal organs (such as the heart, liver, stomach, intestines) from a butchered animal, often prepared as food.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Mẹ tôi mua một cỗ lòng lợn để nấu tiết canh. (My mother bought a set of pig entrails to cook blood pudding.)
  • Cỗ lòng bò thường được dùng để làm món phở. (Beef entrails are often used to make pho.)

Advanced Usage

• "Cỗ lòng" is a specific culinary term. It is not typically used in abstract or metaphorical contexts. Its usage is almost exclusively literal, referring to the physical organ set used in traditional Vietnamese dishes.

Variants and Related Words

• Lòng: (Noun) Intestines; guts; can refer to entrails more generally or figuratively to feelings/heart (e.g., - sincerely, from the heart).
• Phèo: (Noun, informal) Intestines; often used in the compound .
• Ruột: (Noun) Intestines; bowels.
• Nội tạng: (Noun) Internal organs; viscera; a more general and clinical term.

Synonyms

• Bộ đồ lòng: A set of entrails (synonymous phrase).
• Nội tạng: Internal organs, viscera (broader term).

Related Phrases

• Làm lòng: To clean and prepare entrails.
  • Công đoạn làm lòng rất kỳ công. (The process of cleaning entrails is very meticulous.)
• Món lòng: Dishes made from entrails.
  • Quán này có nhiều món lòng ngon. (This eatery has many delicious offal dishes.)

Related Idioms

• "Lòng lang dạ thú": (Idiom) Literally "the heart of a wolf, the stomach of a beast"; meaning cruel and inhuman, beastly. (Note: This idiom uses (heart/innards) figuratively, not the compound ).