Definition

1. Verb:
   • To slip, to stumble: To lose one's footing or balance, often resulting in a misstep or fall.
   • (Obsolete/Regional) To experience edema (swelling) in the legs, especially during pregnancy: This meaning is now largely obsolete and was typically used in the specific phrase "sỉa chân".

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy bị sỉa chân xuống ruộng. (He stumbled/slipped into the rice field.)
  • Đường trơn, cẩn thận kẻo sỉa. (The road is slippery, be careful not to slip.)

Advanced Usage

• The word "sỉa" is considered somewhat archaic or regional in modern Vietnamese. In contemporary usage, words like "trượt" (to slip) or "vấp" (to trip) are more common for the primary meaning.
• The medical meaning related to pregnancy edema is almost never used in modern language and is of historical interest only.

Variants and Related Words

• Sẩy: A more common synonym meaning to slip, to miss a step. "Sỉa" is noted as being similar to ("Nh. Sẩy") in some dictionaries.
  • Sẩy chân: To slip one's foot.

Synonyms

• Trượt: To slip.
• Vấp: To trip, to stumble.
• Sẩy: To slip, to miss a step.

Notes on Meaning

• The core, surviving meaning of "sỉa" is the act of slipping or stumbling, typically used with "chân" (foot/leg) as in "sỉa chân".
• The older meaning referring to a pregnant woman's leg swelling is a distinct, separate definition that is no longer active in common speech. It should not be conflated with the verb meaning "to slip".

1. Pregnant woman's oedma of the legs.
2. (thường sỉa chân) Slip, stumble
   • Sỉa chân xuống ruộng
     To stumble into a field