muối
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Definition
Noun:
- Salt: A white, crystalline substance with a salty taste, primarily sodium chloride (NaCl), used as a seasoning and food preservative. It is obtained from seawater or mined from the earth.
- (Chemistry) Salt: A compound formed by the reaction of an acid with a base, consisting of positive ions (cations) and negative ions (anions).
Verb:
- To pickle; to preserve with salt: The process of treating food (like vegetables, meat, or fish) with salt or brine to preserve it or to create a fermented, sour dish.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Cho thêm một chút muối vào canh. (Add a little salt to the soup.)
- Muối là một khoáng chất thiết yếu cho cơ thể. (Salt is an essential mineral for the body.)
- Đây là một loại muối vô cơ. (This is an inorganic salt.)
Verb:
- Bà tôi thường muối dưa cải vào mùa đông. (My grandmother often pickles mustard greens in winter.)
- Cá được muối kỹ để bảo quản lâu ngày. (The fish is salted thoroughly to preserve it for a long time.)
Advanced Usage
"muối mặt": To feel ashamed or embarrassed.
- Hành động đó khiến anh ta muối mặt với bạn bè. (That action made him feel ashamed in front of his friends.)
"muối tiêu": A seasoning mixture of salt and pepper; figuratively, to add spice or interest to something.
- Câu chuyện được kể với chút muối tiêu cho hấp dẫn. (The story was told with a little spice to make it interesting.)
Variants and Related Words
- Muối biển (n): Sea salt.
- Muối mỏ / Muối hầm (n): Rock salt.
- Muối i-ốt (n): Iodized salt.
- Muối ăn (n): Table salt.
- Đồ muối / Dưa muối (n): Pickled vegetables.
- Ruộng muối / Đầm muối (n): Salt pan; salt marsh.
- Diêm dân (n): Salt worker (a person who produces salt).
- Muối xát / Ướp muối (v): To rub with salt; to cure with salt.
Synonyms
- Noun: Diêm (a more literary/formal term for salt, also used in some compounds).
- Verb: Làm mắm (to make fish sauce, a related preservation method); Ướp (to marinate, which can involve salt).
Related Phrases (Collocations)
- Nêm muối: To season with salt.
- Cô ấy nêm muối vừa ăn. (She seasons with just the right amount of salt.)
- Bỏ muối vào lòng/vết thương: Literally "to put salt in the wound/heart"; to aggravate someone's pain or sorrow.
- Nhắc lại chuyện cũ là bỏ muối vào lòng anh ấy. (Bringing up the past is like rubbing salt in his wound.)
Related Idioms
- Muối bỏ bể: Literally "a grain of salt thrown into the ocean"; a drop in the bucket; something insignificant or a tiny contribution to a vast whole.
- Số tiền quyên góp ấy so với tổng thiệt hại chỉ là muối bỏ bể. (That donated amount is just a drop in the bucket compared to the total damage.)
- Ăn muối nhiều hơn ăn cơm, đi cày nhiều hơn đi đỗ: Literally "to have eaten more salt than rice, to have plowed more than rested"; to have vast life experience, especially through hardship.
- Cụ ấy ăn muối nhiều hơn cháu ăn cơm, nên cụ hiểu đời lắm. (He has much more life experience than you, so he understands the ways of the world.)