Definition

1. Noun:
   • Farmland; cultivated land: A general term referring to agricultural land used for growing crops, particularly in a rural or traditional context. It often encompasses both wet rice fields ("ruộng") and upland fields cleared for cultivation ("rẫy").
   • Fields and plantations: Denotes the collective area of arable land, including paddies and fields on hillsides or land cleared by slash-and-burn methods.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Người nông dân làm việc vất vả trên ruộng rẫy. (The farmer works hard on the farmland.)
  • Ruộng rẫy bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề bởi hạn hán. (The cultivated land was severely affected by the drought.)
  • Họ sống bằng nghề ruộng rẫy. (They make a living from farming the fields.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "ruộng rẫy" is often used in a collective or generic sense to represent the concept of agricultural land as a whole, evoking imagery of rural life and traditional farming.

Variants and Related Words

• Ruộng nương (n): A near-synonymous compound also meaning farmland or cultivated fields.
• Ruộng (n): Specifically refers to a rice paddy or wet field.
• Rẫy (n): Refers to an upland field, often cleared from forest or bushland, used for dry crops.

Synonyms

• Farmland: Land used for growing crops.
• Cultivated land: Land that has been prepared and used for agriculture.
• Arable land: Land suitable for growing crops.
• Fields: Open land for cultivation or pasture.

Related Idioms

• Bám ruộng rẫy: To cling to the land; to be attached to farming life.
  • Nhiều thế hệ gia đình anh ấy đã bám ruộng rẫy. (Many generations of his family have clung to the farming life.)
• Đầu tắt mặt tối nơi ruộng rẫy: To work tirelessly from dawn till dusk in the fields.
  • Cả năm bà con nông dân đầu tắt mặt tối nơi ruộng rẫy. (All year round, the farmers work tirelessly from dawn till dusk in the fields.)

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