Definition

Noun: 1. Crow: A common black bird with a long beak and long wings, known for its loud cawing sound. It is often considered an intelligent bird. 2. Raven: A larger, typically all-black bird of the same family (Corvidae), often associated with a deeper, more resonant call and symbolic meanings in folklore.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trên cành cây khô có một con quạ đang đậu. (On the dry branch, a crow is perched.)
  • Tiếng quạ kêu vang lên trong khu rừng vắng. (The caw of a crow echoed in the deserted forest.)
  • Trong truyện ngụ ngôn, quạ thường được miêu tả là loài chim khôn ngoan. (In fables, the crow is often portrayed as a wise bird.)

Advanced Usage

• "Đen như quạ": As black as a crow. An idiom used to describe something or someone that is very black or dark in color.
  • Mái tóc của bà ấy đen như quạ. (Her hair is as black as a crow.)
• "Quạ ăn đêm": Literally "crow that eats at night". This phrase is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to suspicious or stealthy activities under the cover of darkness.

Variants and Related Words

• Quạ đen (n): Common crow. The most frequently seen species.
• Quạ khoang (n): Pied crow or hooded crow. A crow with grey and black plumage.
• Quạ xám (n): Rook. A type of crow with a greyish face at the base of the beak.
• Họ Quạ (n): Corvidae. The biological family that includes crows, ravens, jays, and magpies.
  • Chim ác là và quạ đều thuộc họ Quạ. (Magpies and crows both belong to the Corvidae family.)

Synonyms

• Con quạ: The crow/the raven. (The most direct synonym, as it is the same word with the classifier "con").
• Giác (n, literary/archaic): An old literary term for crow or raven, rarely used in modern speech.

Related Phrases

• Tiếng quạ kêu (n): The caw/croak of a crow.
  • Tiếng quạ kêu báo hiệu một điều không lành. (The cawing of a crow signals an ill omen.)
• Tổ quạ (n): Crow's nest.
  • Bọn trẻ tìm thấy một tổ quạ trên ngọn cây. (The children found a crow's nest at the top of the tree.)

Related Idioms

• Quạ tắm thì ráo, sáo tắm thì mưa: Literally "If a crow bathes, it dries; if a starling bathes, it rains". A folk weather proverb.
• Quạ không thể đẻ ra trứng bồ câu: A crow cannot lay a dove's egg. Similar to the English idiom "A leopard cannot change its spots," implying one's nature is unchangeable.

noun

1. crow
   • con quạ