lạc
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Definition
Noun:
- Peanut; Groundnut: A legume plant whose seeds grow underground in pods, widely cultivated for its edible seeds, which are eaten directly or used to produce oil and other food products.
Verb:
- To get lost; to stray: To become unable to find one's way or to deviate from the correct path or direction.
- To misplace; to lose (temporarily): To put something somewhere and forget where it is, making it temporarily unfindable.
- To be out of (a normal state): (Of voice, eyes) To change drastically from the normal state due to strong emotion, excitement, or shock.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Mẹ mua một cân lạc. (Mom bought a kilogram of peanuts.)
- Dầu lạc tốt cho sức khỏe. (Peanut oil is good for health.)
Verb:
- Chúng tôi bị lạc trong rừng. (We got lost in the forest.)
- Tôi hay để lạc chìa khóa. (I often misplace my keys.)
- Giọng cô ấy lạc hẳn đi khi nghe tin buồn. (Her voice became completely strained upon hearing the sad news.)
Advanced Usage
"lạc đề": to digress, to go off-topic.
- Bài viết của anh ấy bị lạc đề. (His essay went off-topic.)
"lạc quan": to be optimistic.
- Cô ấy luôn có thái độ lạc quan. (She always has an optimistic attitude.)
Variants and Related Words
Lạc đường (v): to lose one's way.
- Xin lỗi, tôi bị lạc đường. (Excuse me, I've lost my way.)
Lạc hậu (adj): backward, outdated.
- Tư tưởng lạc hậu cần được thay đổi. (Outdated thinking needs to be changed.)
Củ lạc (n): another common term for peanut.
- Rang củ lạc để ăn. (Roast peanuts to eat.)
Synonyms
- Peanut: groundnut.
- To get lost: to lose one's way, to stray.
- To misplace: to lose temporarily.
Related Idioms
Lạc lối: to lose one's path (often used figuratively for losing one's way in life).
- Anh ấy cảm thấy mình đã lạc lối. (He felt he had lost his way.)
Chim lạc đàn: a stray bird from its flock (figuratively, a person who is separated from their group or feels out of place).
- Cậu bé như chim lạc đàn giữa chốn đông người. (The boy was like a stray bird amidst the crowd.)
noun
- peanut; ground-nut
- kẹo lạcpeanut sweets
verb
- to lose; to stray
- đạn lạca stray bullet. to be out of
- lạc giọngto be out of tune. to mislay
- hay để lạc giấy tờto often mislay documents