nóng rẫy
Definition
- Adjective:
- Burning hot: An intense, often uncomfortable, sensation of heat. It typically describes physical heat that feels sharp, penetrating, or scorching, as from a fire, a fever, or a sun-baked surface.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Mặt đường bê tông nóng rẫy dưới trưa hè. (The concrete pavement is burning hot under the summer noon sun.)
- Trán em bé nóng rẫy vì sốt. (The baby's forehead is burning hot with fever.)
- Tôi cảm thấy nóng rẫy trong người. (I feel a burning heat inside my body.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used to describe a subjective, physical sensation rather than an objective temperature measurement. It emphasizes the discomfort or intensity of the heat felt by a person or emanating from an object.
Variants and Related Words
- Nóng (adj): hot, warm. A more general and common term for heat.
- Nóng bỏng (adj): scalding hot; often used for liquids or objects too hot to touch, and can also mean "urgent" or "burning" (e.g., a burning issue).
- Rẫy (verb, archaic/regional): to clear land by burning; this root contributes the intense, fire-related connotation to the compound.
Synonyms
- Scalding: Extremely hot, especially causing burns.
- Searing: Extremely hot and burning.
- Blistering: Intensely hot.
Related Idioms
- Nóng như lửa đốt: (Hot as if being burned by fire) An idiom describing an extreme sensation of heat, anxiety, or urgency. can describe the physical sensation component of this idiom.
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