Definition

1. Noun:

   • Cholera: A serious infectious disease causing severe diarrhea and dehydration, often spreading in epidemics.

2. Verb:

   • To describe, to depict: To represent something in words or images so that others can visualize it clearly and vividly.
   • To crumble, to disintegrate: To break or fall apart into small fragments.

3. Adjective:

   • Left: Relating to the left side or direction.
   • Leftist, radical: Relating to political groups or ideas that support progressive, revolutionary, or sometimes extreme social change.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Dịch tả đã bùng phát trong vùng. (A cholera epidemic has broken out in the region.)
• Verb (to describe):
  • Nhà văn tả cảnh biển lúc bình minh rất sinh động. (The writer describes the seaside at dawn very vividly.)
  • Nỗi đau đó khó mà tả được. (That pain is hard to describe.)
• Verb (to crumble):
  • Bức tường cũ đã tả ra thành từng mảng. (The old wall crumbled into pieces.)
• Adjective (left):
  • Cô ấy đứng ở phía tả của sân khấu. (She is standing on the left side of the stage.)
• Adjective (leftist):
  • Đảng đó theo đường lối tả. (That party follows a leftist line.)

Advanced Usage

• "tả thực": to describe realistically, realism.
  • Phong cách văn học tả thực. (A literary style of realism.)
• "tả xung hữu đột": an idiom meaning "to fight fiercely on all sides," originally describing a military tactic of charging left and thrusting right.
  • Đội bóng tả xung hữu đột tìm cách ghi bàn. (The football team fought fiercely on all sides trying to score a goal.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tả bên (n): the left side.
• Tả hữu (n): left and right; one's close aides or assistants.
• Tả pí lù (adj, colloquial): A slang term derived from French (apron), meaning messy, disorganized, or all over the place.
  • Căn phòng trông thật tả pí lù. (The room looks completely messy.)

Synonyms

• To describe: depict, portray, illustrate.
• To crumble: disintegrate, fragment, break apart.
• Left (side): portside (nautical), sinistral (technical).
• Leftist: progressive, radical.

Related Idioms

• "Khó tả": indescribable.
  • Vẻ đẹp ấy thật khó tả. (That beauty is truly indescribable.)
• "Tả tơi": tattered, torn to shreds (often used for clothing or morale).
  • Quần áo rách tả tơi. (Clothes torn to shreds.)
  • Tinh thần binh sĩ tan tả tơi. (The soldiers' morale was utterly shattered.)

noun

1. cholera

verb

1. to describe, to picture
   • tả cảnh đẹp
     to picture a landscape. to paste, to thresh. to crumble

adj

1. left, leftist