Definition

1. Noun:
   • Dawn, daybreak: The time of day when the first faint light of the sun begins to appear in the sky, before sunrise. It describes the period when darkness is fading but the sun is not yet visible.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trời vừa mờ sáng, chúng tôi đã lên đường. (It was just dawn when we set off.)
  • Tiếng gà gáy vang lên trong buổi mờ sáng. (The rooster's crow echoed in the early dawn.)
  • Khung cảnh mờ sáng trên biển thật yên bình. (The scene at daybreak over the sea is very peaceful.)

Advanced Usage

• "lúc mờ sáng" / "buổi mờ sáng": At dawn / The dawn period.

  • Cô ấy thích đi dạo lúc mờ sáng. (She likes to take a walk at dawn.)

• "trời mờ sáng": The sky is growing light at dawn.

  • Khi trời mờ sáng, những ngôi sao bắt đầu biến mất. (When the sky brightens at dawn, the stars begin to disappear.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bình minh (n): Sunrise, dawn (a more literary synonym).
• Rạng đông (n): Daybreak, dawn (a common synonym).
• Tảng sáng (n): Daybreak, early morning light (a dialectal/northern Vietnamese variant with the same meaning as 'mờ sáng').

Synonyms

• Dawn: The first light of day.
• Daybreak: The time in the morning when light first appears.
• Sunrise: The time when the sun appears above the horizon (slightly later than 'mờ sáng').
• First light: The earliest light of dawn.

Related Phrases

• Trước lúc mờ sáng: Before daybreak.
  • Họ phải thức dậy trước lúc mờ sáng. (They had to wake up before daybreak.)

Related Idioms

• (Không common idioms use 'mờ sáng' directly. The concept is often expressed in descriptive phrases.)
  • Từ lúc mờ sáng tới tối mịt: From dawn till dusk.

    • Ông ấy làm việc từ lúc mờ sáng tới tối mịt. (He works from dawn till dusk.)

1. Dawn, daybreak