Definition

1. Noun:

   • Rice stubble: The short, stiff stalks of rice plants left standing in the field after the grain has been harvested.
   • (Regional/Dialectal) Chickenpox: A common, contagious childhood disease characterized by an itchy rash of small blisters.

2. Adjective:

   • (Colloquial) All the children of a family: Used to refer collectively to every child in a household.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Rice stubble):

  • Sau khi gặt, đồng ruộng chỉ còn trơ lại những gốc rạ. (After harvesting, only the rice stubble remains in the field.)
  • Người nông dân chất rạ thành đống để phơi khô. (The farmer piles up the rice stubble to dry.)

• Noun (Chickenpox):

  • Con tôi đang bị lên rạ nên rất ngứa. (My child has chickenpox, so they are very itchy.)

• Adjective:

  • Nhà ấy bốn đứa rạ đều học giỏi. (All four children in that family are good students.)

Advanced Usage

• "chết như ngã rạ": An idiom meaning "to die in great numbers," similar to "to perish like flies." It evokes the image of rice stalks falling flat during harvest.
  • Trong trận dịch, người chết như ngã rạ. (During the epidemic, people died in great numbers.)

Variants and Related Words

• Gốc rạ (n): Another term for rice stubble or stubble root.
• Rơm rạ (n): A compound term often referring to rice straw and stubble collectively, the byproducts of rice harvesting.

Synonyms

• Rice stubble: stubble, straw (in the specific context of rice).
• Chickenpox: varicella (medical term).
• All the children: the whole brood, all the offspring.

Related Idioms

• Chết như ngã rạ: As explained above, this is the primary idiom associated with this word.

noun

1. rice stubble

adj

1. all the children of a family