hạ thử
Definition
- Noun:
- Summer heat: The hot weather characteristic of the summer season, especially in the context of traditional Vietnamese climate descriptions. This is an archaic or literary term.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Trời đang vào độ hạ thử. (The weather is in the period of summer heat.)
- Hạ thử oi bức khiến ai cũng mệt mỏi. (The sweltering summer heat makes everyone tired.)
Advanced Usage
- "giữa hạ thử": in the midst of the summer heat.
- Giữa hạ thử, tìm bóng cây là điều ai cũng muốn. (In the midst of the summer heat, finding shade under a tree is what everyone desires.)
Variants and Related Words
- Nắng nóng (n): hot sunshine; a more common, modern synonym for hot weather.
- Oi bức (adj): sweltering, stifling (often used to describe humid heat).
- Hạ (n): summer (the season).
Synonyms
- Cái nóng mùa hè: summer heat.
- Thời tiết nóng bức: hot weather.
Related Idioms
- Nắng như đổ lửa: The sun is like pouring fire (idiom describing intense heat).
- Trưa hè, nắng như đổ lửa. (At summer noon, the sun is like pouring fire.)
- Nóng như lửa đốt: Hot as if being burned by fire.
- Cơn hạ thử khiến phố phường nóng như lửa đốt. (The spell of summer heat makes the streets hot as if being burned by fire.)