Definition

Noun: * Cucumber: A long, thin, green-skinned vegetable with crisp, watery, pale green flesh, commonly eaten raw in salads or pickled.

Usage

• As a noun (countable): Refers to the whole vegetable or a piece of it.
  • Tôi cần mua hai quả dưa leo. (I need to buy two cucumbers.)
  • Cô ấy thái dưa leo thành từng lát mỏng. (She slices the cucumber into thin pieces.)
• As a noun (uncountable): Refers to the food substance.
  • Món salad này có nhiều dưa leo. (This salad has a lot of cucumber.)

Examples

• (Cucumber juice is very cool and good for health.)
• (You can apply a cucumber mask to nourish your skin.)
• (Pickled cucumber is a common side dish.)

Advanced Usage

• "tươi như dưa leo" (as fresh as a cucumber): An idiom describing someone who looks very fresh, cool, and rested, often despite a tiring situation.
  • Sau chuyến bay dài, cô ấy vẫn trông tươi như dưa leo. (After the long flight, she still looked as fresh as a cucumber.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dưa chuột: This is the more standard, formal term in Vietnamese for the same vegetable. "Dưa leo" is more common in Southern Vietnam.
• Dưa góp: Refers specifically to pickled cucumber or a salad of pickled vegetables often containing cucumber.

Synonyms

• Cuke (informal, English): A casual shortening of "cucumber".

Related Phrases / Collocations

• Salad dưa leo: Cucumber salad.
• Hạt dưa leo: Cucumber seeds.
• Ruột dưa leo: Cucumber flesh/pulp.
• Vỏ dưa leo: Cucumber peel/skin.

noun

1. cucumber