nông phu
Definition
- Noun:
- A poor farmer or peasant: An archaic or literary term referring specifically to a farmer of low social and economic status, often one who works the land for a living with basic tools and manual labor. It carries a connotation of hardship and simplicity.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Cuộc sống của người nông phu vất vả quanh năm. (The life of the peasant is hard all year round.)
- Bức tranh miêu tả một nông phu đang cày ruộng. (The painting depicts a poor farmer plowing the field.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "nông phu" is now considered old-fashioned and is primarily found in historical, literary, or poetic contexts. In modern Vietnamese, "nông dân" is the standard, neutral term for "farmer."
Variants and Related Words
- Nông dân (n): farmer, peasant (modern, general term).
- Nông dân Việt Nam rất cần cù. (Vietnamese farmers are very hardworking.)
Synonyms
- Peasant: A poor smallholder or agricultural laborer.
- Farmhand: A person who works on a farm for wages.
- Rustic: (Literary) a person from the countryside, often implying simplicity.
Related Idioms
- While there are no direct idioms with "nông phu", the concept is central to many Vietnamese sayings about rural life, hard work, and poverty, such as "bán mặt cho đất, bán lưng cho trời" (to sell one's face to the earth, one's back to the sky), describing the toil of a farmer's life.