Definition

1. Noun:
   • Sickle: A hand-held agricultural tool with a curved, sharpened metal blade, used for cutting crops like grass or grain.
   • Crescent: A curved shape that is wider in the middle and tapers to points at each end, resembling the shape of a sickle blade.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Người nông dân dùng lưỡi liềm để cắt lúa. (The farmer uses a sickle to cut rice.)
  • Trên lá cờ có hình lưỡi liềm và ngôi sao. (The flag features a crescent and a star.)
  • Đêm nay trăng lưỡi liềm rất sáng. (Tonight, the crescent moon is very bright.)

Advanced Usage

• "Trăng lưỡi liềm": This is a fixed phrase specifically meaning "crescent moon." It can refer to either a waxing or waning moon in its early or late stages.
  • Trên bầu trời chỉ le lói một vầng trăng lưỡi liềm mỏng manh. (In the sky, only a slender sliver of a crescent moon glimmered.)

Variants and Related Words

• Liềm (n): The full tool, the sickle (includes the handle and the blade).
  • Cái liềm (the sickle)
• Hình lưỡi liềm (adj/n): Crescent-shaped.
  • Vịnh có hình lưỡi liềm (a crescent-shaped bay)

Synonyms

• For the tool: Cái hái (a similar, sometimes larger, harvesting tool).
• For the shape: Hình trăng khuyết, hình lưỡi trăng (crescent shape).

Related Idioms

• "Nhọn như lưỡi liềm": (As sharp as a sickle blade) Used to describe something very sharp.
  • Mũi tên nhọn như lưỡi liềm. (The arrowhead is as sharp as a sickle.)

1. Sickle
   • Trăng lưỡi liềm
     A crecent moon, a waning moon