dảnh

Thân thiện

Người nông dân tách từng dảnh lúa để đem đi cấy.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A unit of rice seedlings ready for transplanting: "Dảnh" refers to a clump or small bundle of young rice plants that have been grown in a nursery and are now ready to be pulled and transplanted into a flooded paddy field.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Người nông dân nhổ từng dảnh mạ để cấy. (The farmer pulls each unit of rice seedlings for transplanting.)
  • Một dảnh lúa thường có từ năm đến bảy cây mạ. (One dảnh of rice typically contains five to seven seedling plants.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is highly specialized and used almost exclusively in the context of wet-rice agriculture. It describes a specific, countable unit in the transplanting process.

Variants and Related Words

• Mạ (n): Rice seedlings; the young rice plants themselves before they are bundled into .
• Cấy (v): To transplant rice seedlings.
• Khóm (n): Can mean a clump or tuft, and may be used in a broader botanical sense, but is not a direct synonym for the agricultural unit .

Synonyms

• Bó mạ (n): A bundle of rice seedlings. This is a close synonym, though implies a slightly more deliberate bundling, while can refer to the natural clump.
• Khóm mạ (n): A clump of rice seedlings.

Notes on Meaning

• "Dảnh" is a technical term from traditional Vietnamese rice farming. It does not have other common meanings in modern general language. It is not to be confused with the more common word "dành" (to save/reserve).

Học thuật

1. Unit of rice seedling (about to be transplanted)