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dưa muối

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Definition
  1. Noun:
    • Pickled vegetables: "dưa muối" refers to vegetables that have been preserved through fermentation in a brine solution, typically using salt. It is a traditional Vietnamese side dish.
    • Poor, simple food: By extension, it can symbolize humble, basic, or meager food, often associated with a frugal lifestyle or poverty.
Usage Examples
  • Noun:
    • Bà tôi thường làm dưa muối từ cải bẹ xanh. (My grandmother often makes pickled vegetables from mustard greens.)
    • Thời sinh viên, bữa ăn của tôi thường chỉ có cơm với dưa muối. (During my student years, my meals often consisted only of rice and pickles.)
Advanced Usage

  • "Cơm dưa muối": A phrase describing a very simple, meager meal, emphasizing a humble or difficult living condition.

    • Anh ấy kể về thời kỳ khó khăn với những bữa cơm dưa muối. (He told stories about the difficult period with meals of just rice and pickles.)

  • Symbolic Use: Used to evoke nostalgia for simpler times or to represent resilience and contentment with little.

    • Đôi khi tôi nhớ hương vị mộc mạc của dưa muối quê nhà. (Sometimes I miss the rustic flavor of homemade pickled vegetables.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Dưa chua (n): A more general term for pickled or sour vegetables, which can include "dưa muối" but may also refer to vegetables pickled with vinegar or sugar.
  • Dưa cải muối (n): Specifically refers to pickled mustard greens.
  • Cà muối (n): Pickled eggplants, a similar type of preserved side dish.
Synonyms
  • Đồ chua: Sour/pickled food.
  • Thức ăn đạm bạc: Plain, simple food.
Related Phrases
  • Ăn cơm dưa muối: To live a very frugal life, to make do with very little.
    • Gia đình họ đã phải ăn cơm dưa muối qua ngày. (Their family had to get by with the most basic meals.)
Related Idioms
  • "Dưa muối đỡ cơm": Literally "pickles help the rice go down," meaning that even simple food can make a meal satisfying when one is hungry. It highlights making the best of a modest situation.
    • Lúc khó khăn, dưa muối đỡ cơm cũng là niềm vui. (In hard times, even having pickles to eat with rice can be a joy.)
dưa muối

Mẹ để một đĩa dưa muối cải trắng trên bàn ăn.

  1. Pickles and salt, poor foods
    • Bữa cơm dưa muối
      a meal with poor foods, a meager meal