Definition

1. Verb:
   • To conceive, to become pregnant: The process of a woman's body beginning to carry a developing embryo or fetus. This is the primary and most common meaning.
   • To gestate, to be pregnant: The state of carrying a developing offspring within the body.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Cô ấy đã hoài thai được ba tháng. (She has been pregnant for three months.)
  • Quá trình hoài thai là một điều kỳ diệu. (The process of gestation is a miracle.)
  • Họ rất vui mừng khi biết tin cô ấy đã hoài thai. (They were overjoyed to hear the news that she had conceived.)

Advanced Usage

• "Thời kỳ hoài thai": The gestation period.
  • Thời kỳ hoài thai của con người kéo dài khoảng chín tháng. (The human gestation period lasts about nine months.)
• "Ý tưởng hoài thai": (Figurative, literary) A conceived idea; an idea in its earliest, formative stage.
  • Dự án này đã được hoài thai từ hai năm trước. (This project was conceived two years ago.)

Variants and Related Words

• Mang thai (v): To be pregnant. (A more common, everyday synonym).
• Có thai (v): To be pregnant. (A direct, common synonym).
• Thai nghén (v): To be pregnant; to gestate. (Can also be used figuratively for ideas).
• Sự thụ thai (n): Conception.

Synonyms

• Mang thai: To be pregnant.
• Có thai: To be pregnant.
• Thai nghén: To gestate.

Related Idioms

• "Hoài thai ý tưởng": (Literary/Figurative) To conceive an idea; to be in the early stages of developing a thought or plan.
  • Nhà văn đang hoài thai ý tưởng cho cuốn tiểu thuyết mới. (The writer is conceiving ideas for a new novel.)

1. Be with cjild, gestate, have a pregnancy
   • Thời kỳ hoài thai
     The gestation period