rạ
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Definition
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.
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.
adj
- all the children of a family