lúa

Definition

Noun:
- Rice plant: The primary cereal crop (Oryza sativa) cultivated in flooded fields (paddies), whose grains, after threshing and milling, become edible rice.
- Unmilled rice / Paddy: Refers specifically to the harvested grain with its husk still intact (i.e., threshed but unmilled rice).

Usage Examples

Noun:
- Cánh đồng lúa chín vàng. (The field of ripe rice plants is golden.)
- Nhà tôi vừa thu hoạch được mười tấn lúa. (My family just harvested ten tons of paddy.)
- Lúa là cây lương thực chính của Việt Nam. (Rice is the staple food crop of Vietnam.)

Advanced Usage

"lúa giống": seed rice; paddy reserved specifically for use as seed in the next planting season.
- Người nông dân cần phải chọn lúa giống cẩn thận. (The farmer needs to select seed rice carefully.)
"lúa nước": wet rice; rice cultivated in irrigated or rain-fed paddies, as opposed to upland dry rice.
- Nền văn minh lúa nước. (Wet rice civilization.)

Variants and Related Words

Lúa mì (n): wheat.
- Bánh mì được làm từ lúa mì. (Bread is made from wheat.)
Lúa mạch (n): barley.
- Lúa mạch dùng để làm bia. (Barley is used to make beer.)
Cây lúa (n): the rice plant (emphasizing the plant itself).
Hạt lúa (n): a grain of rice/paddy.
Thóc (n): a common synonym for unmilled rice (paddy).

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Related Idioms and Phrases

Con gái đồng lúa: (lit. daughter of the rice fields) A girl from the countryside; often implying simplicity, hard work, and traditional values.
- Cô ấy là một cô gái đồng lúa chất phác. (She is a simple, rustic daughter of the rice fields.)
Một nắng hai sương (associated with rice cultivation): (lit. one sun, two dews) To work tirelessly from early morning until late, typical of rice farmers.
- Người nông dân một nắng hai sương trên đồng lúa. (The farmer toils tirelessly in the rice field.)

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