quạnh

Thân thiện

Đứa bé đứng một mình trên con đường quạnh.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Desolate, lonely, bleak: Describes a place that is empty, uninhabited, and evokes a feeling of solitude and melancholy. It implies a vast, quiet, and often sad emptiness.
   • Isolated, remote: Refers to a place that is far from populated areas, secluded, and cut off.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cánh đồng trông thật quạnh. (The field looks truly desolate.)
  • Con đường làng vắng quạnh. (The village road is lonely and empty.)
  • Không gian yên tĩnh và quạnh. (The space is quiet and bleak.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "quạnh" is often used in literary or poetic contexts to create a strong mood of solitude and emptiness. It is less common in everyday speech than its synonym "vắng".
• It frequently appears in the fixed, idiomatic phrase "đồng không mông quạnh", which vividly describes a vast, empty, and deserted field or plain.

Variants and Related Words

• Quạnh quẽ (adj): An intensified form meaning very lonely, desolate, and forlorn.

  • Căn nhà bỏ hoang trông quạnh quẽ. (The abandoned house looks forlorn.)

• Quạnh hiu (adj): Describes a lonely, quiet, and somewhat sad atmosphere.

  • Tiếng gió thổi quạnh hiu. (The wind blew with a lonely sound.)

Synonyms

• Desolate: Empty and giving an impression of bleak, joyless emptiness.
• Lonely: Unfrequented and remote; without companions.
• Bleak: Lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness; exposed and barren.
• Isolated: Far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote.

Related Idioms

• Đồng không mông quạnh: A vast, empty, and deserted expanse; the middle of nowhere.
  • Họ lạc vào một nơi đồng không mông quạnh. (They got lost in a vast, deserted expanse / in the middle of nowhere.)

Học thuật

1. (ít dùng) Desert
   • Đồng không mông quạnh
     Empty and desert fields