lưỡi liềm
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Definition
- 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.)
- Sickle
- Trăng lưỡi liềmA crecent moon, a waning moon