làm dầm
Definition
- Verb:
- To cultivate a flooded rice field: The primary meaning refers to the agricultural activity of working on or cultivating a rice paddy that is intentionally flooded with water, a common practice in wet-rice cultivation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Nông dân đang làm dầm để chuẩn bị cho vụ lúa mới. (The farmers are cultivating the flooded field to prepare for the new rice crop.)
- Công việc làm dầm thường rất vất vả. (The work of cultivating flooded fields is often very hard.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is specific to traditional wet-rice agriculture. It describes a particular stage or method in rice farming where the field is saturated with water.
Variants and Related Words
- Làm ruộng (verb): A more general term for farming or working in rice fields.
- Cấy lúa (verb): To transplant rice seedlings, which is a subsequent step often done after preparing the field (which may involve ).
Synonyms
- Canh tác lúa nước (verb phrase): To practice wet-rice cultivation.
Notes on Meaning
- The term làm dầm is highly specific to the context of agriculture, particularly rice farming in Vietnam. It does not have other common metaphorical or idiomatic meanings in everyday language.