tỏi
Definition
- Noun:
- Garlic: A plant of the onion family, whose bulb is divided into segments (cloves), has a pungent smell, and is used as a spice or seasoning.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Mẹ tôi thường cho tỏi vào các món xào. (My mother often adds garlic to stir-fried dishes.)
- Củ tỏi này có nhiều múi. (This garlic bulb has many cloves.)
- Tỏi sống có mùi rất hăng. (Raw garlic has a very pungent smell.)
Advanced Usage
- "Tỏi" as slang (vulgar) for "to die": In informal, vulgar speech, "tỏi" can be used as a verb meaning "to die" or "to kick the bucket."
- Tên cướp đó đã tỏi sau cuộc đấu súng. (That robber kicked the bucket after the shootout.)
- Nó làm ăn kiểu đó sớm muộn cũng tỏi. (If he keeps doing business like that, he'll die sooner or later.)
Variants and Related Words
- Củ tỏi (n): Garlic bulb.
- Tôi mua một củ tỏi. (I bought a bulb of garlic.)
- Múi tỏi / Tép tỏi (n): Clove of garlic.
- Bạn cần băm nhỏ hai tép tỏi. (You need to mince two cloves of garlic.)
- Tỏi tây (n): Leek (literally "Western garlic").
- Tỏi gà (n): Chicken thigh/drumstick (literally "chicken garlic"; a regional/colloquial term).
- Tỏi mọc (n): Garlic sprout/shoot.
Synonyms
- Ail (French loanword, used in some contexts, especially in Southern Vietnam): Garlic.
- Mua dùm ký ail. (Please buy a kilo of garlic for me.)
Related Phrases/Idioms
- Nát như tỏi: To be crushed/bruised badly (literally "crushed like garlic").
- Sau tai nạn, chiếc xe nát như tỏi. (After the accident, the car was totally crushed.)
- Mùi tỏi: The smell of garlic.
- Hơi thở có mùi tỏi. (To have garlic breath.)
- Đập dập tỏi: To crush garlic (a common cooking preparation step).
- Công thức yêu cầu đập dập một tép tỏi. (The recipe calls for crushing one clove of garlic.)
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garlic
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củ tỏi
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