Definition

1. Noun:
   • Rice nursery, rice seedling bed: A specific area of a field where rice seeds are sown and nurtured until the young seedlings are strong enough to be transplanted to the main paddy field.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Nông dân đang chăm sóc dược mạ trước khi cấy. (Farmers are tending to the rice nursery before transplanting.)
  • Dược mạ phát triển rất tốt nhờ thời tiết thuận lợi. (The rice seedlings are growing very well thanks to favorable weather.)

Advanced Usage

• "chuẩn bị dược mạ": to prepare a rice nursery/seedbed.
  • Công việc đầu tiên của vụ lúa là chuẩn bị dược mạ. (The first task of the rice crop is to prepare the seedling bed.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mạ (n): A more common and general term for rice seedlings. is a more specific term for the nursery bed itself.
• Vườn ươm (n): Nursery (a general term for a place where young plants are grown, not specific to rice).

Synonyms

• Luống mạ: Rice seedling bed (synonymous, emphasizing the raised bed structure).
• Ruộng mạ: Rice seedling field.

Related Phrases

• Gieo mạ / Gieo dược mạ: To sow rice seeds in the nursery.
  • Họ vừa gieo dược mạ xong. (They have just finished sowing the rice nursery.)
• Nhổ mạ: To pull up rice seedlings from the nursery for transplanting.
  • Sáng mai, chúng tôi sẽ ra đồng nhổ mạ. (Tomorrow morning, we will go to the field to pull up the seedlings.)