lùm

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Một con chim nhỏ đậu trên lùm cây gần bờ ao.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A grove, a thicket, a clump: A small, dense group of trees, bushes, or plants, especially bamboo.
   • A mound, a heap: Something piled up high, forming a rounded top.

2. Adjective (used in the phrase đầy lùm): Heaped, mounded: Describes a container, like a plate or bowl, that is filled so full that the contents form a rounded, piled-up shape.

Usage Examples

• Noun (grove/thicket):

  • Ngồi hóng mát dưới bóng lùm tre. (To sit in the shade of a bamboo grove for fresh air.)
  • Chim làm tổ trong lùm cây rậm rạp. (Birds build nests in the dense thicket of trees.)

• Noun/Adjective (heap/mounded):

  • Đĩa xôi đầy lùm. (A plate of glutinous rice, heaped high.)
  • Mẹ xúc cơm đầy lùm. (Mother scooped rice into a mounded bowl.)

Advanced Usage

• "lùm lùm" (reduplicative form): This form intensifies the meaning, emphasizing a more prominent mound, heap, or thicker grove.
  • Bát canh được múc lùm lùm. (The bowl of soup was ladled very full, forming a high mound.)
  • Phía sau nhà có một lùm lùm cây dại. (Behind the house, there is a very dense, thick clump of wild plants.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bụi: Bush, shrub. While often refers to a single bush or a less dense cluster, implies a denser, more noticeable group.
• Đám: Patch, cluster. A more general term for a group of plants or things.
• Gò: Hillock, mound. Refers specifically to a small hill or raised area of land, not a pile of food.

Synonyms

• Noun (grove): Cụm cây (cluster of trees), khóm (clump, cluster).
• Noun/Adjective (heap): Đống (pile), vun (mounded).

Related Phrases

• Đầy lùm: This is the standard phrase where functions adjectivally. It is not a phrasal verb but a fixed descriptive phrase meaning "heaped full."
  • Bát phở đầy lùm thịt. (A bowl of pho heaped with meat.)

Related Idioms

• There are no common idioms directly centered on the word "lùm". Its usage is primarily literal, describing physical clusters or mounds.

Học thuật

1. grove
   • Ngồi hóng mát dưới bóng lùm tre
     To sit in the shade of a bamboo grove for fresh air
2. Heaped
   • Đĩa xôi đầy lùm.
     A heaped plate of glutinous rice
   • lùm lùm (láy, ý tăng)