ngục
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Definition
- Noun:
- Prison; jail; gaol: A place where people are held as punishment for crimes or while awaiting trial. This is the primary and most common meaning.
- Dungeon: A dark, often underground cell in a castle or prison. This meaning emphasizes confinement in a dark, oppressive place.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Hắn bị tống vào ngục vì tội cướp. (He was thrown into prison for robbery.)
- Nhà tù đó là một ngục tối khét tiếng. (That prison was a notorious dungeon.)
- Lính gác ngục rất nghiêm khắc. (The prison guards are very strict.)
Advanced Usage
- "ngục tối": Literally "dark prison," commonly used to mean "dungeon" or metaphorically for any place of extreme suffering and confinement.
- Căn hầm đó giống như một ngục tối. (That basement is like a dungeon.)
- "địa ngục trần gian": A common idiom meaning "hell on earth," used to describe a place or situation of extreme suffering. (Note: This is a compound phrase listed here as an advanced, idiomatic usage).
- Chiến tranh đã biến ngôi làng thành địa ngục trần gian. (The war turned the village into a hell on earth.)
Variants and Related Words
- Nhà tù / Nhà lao (n): Synonyms for prison/jail. These are more common in everyday modern Vietnamese than "ngục."
- Ngục thất (n, literary): A prison cell; a more literary term.
- Ngục tù (n): A compound word meaning imprisonment or prison life, often used in formal or literary contexts.
- Giam cầm (v): To imprison, to detain.
Synonyms
- Nhà tù: Prison, jail.
- Nhà giam: Jail, lockup.
- Trại giam: Detention camp, prison camp.
- Laо ngục (literary/compound): Prison.
Related Phrases / Compound Words
- Vượt ngục (v): To break out of prison, to escape from jail.
- Bọn tù nhân đã lập kế hoạch vượt ngục. (The prisoners planned a jailbreak.)
- Lính gác ngục (n): Prison guard, jailer.
- Ngục tối (n): Dungeon.
noun
- prison; jail; gaol
- vượt ngụcto break prison