thoi
1. Noun: - Shuttle: A tool used in weaving, typically boat-shaped with pointed ends, that carries the weft thread back and forth through the warp threads on a loom. - Small bar, ingot: A small, solid, usually rectangular piece of a material such as gold, ink, or chalk. - Punch, jab: (Colloquial) A blow delivered with a fist or elbow.
2. Verb: - To punch, to jab: (Colloquial) To hit someone forcefully with a fist or elbow. - To plunge, to fetch: (Less common) To dive into or retrieve something from a liquid or a deep place.
Noun (Shuttle):
- Tiếng thoi đưa lách cách trên khung cửi. (The sound of the shuttle moving back and forth on the loom is clacking.)
- Thời gian trôi nhanh như con thoi. (Time flies as fast as a shuttle.)
Noun (Small bar):
- Cô ấy mua một thoi vàng để làm đồ trang sức. (She bought a small bar of gold to make jewelry.)
- Anh ấy viết bằng thoi mực tàu. (He writes with a stick/ cake of Chinese ink.)
Noun/Verb (Punch):
- Nó bị thoi mấy cái vào bụng. (He got punched a few times in the stomach.) [Here, "thoi" is a verb in passive voice]
- Anh ta tức quá, định thoi cho nó một cái. (He was so angry he intended to punch him one.)
Verb (To plunge/fetch):
- Người thợ lặn thoi xuống đáy biển tìm ngọc trai. (The diver plunged to the seabed to search for pearls.)
"chạy như con thoi": To run/shuttle back and forth very quickly and busily.
- Nhân viên giao hàng chạy như con thoi giữa các cửa hàng. (The delivery person shuttles back and forth between the stores.)
"thoi thóp": (Verb) To breathe faintly, to be on the verge of death. (Note: This is a compound word where "thoi" contributes to the meaning of weak, intermittent movement).
- Bệnh nhân thoi thóp, khó thở. (The patient is gasping and having difficulty breathing.)
- Thoi thóp (verb): To gasp, to breathe one's last.
- Thuyền thoi (noun): A long, narrow boat with pointed ends, shaped like a shuttle.
- Hình thoi (noun): Rhombus (a geometric shape).
- Cột thoi (noun): Spindle-shaped column.
- Đấm (verb): To punch (more common for "to punch").
- Ném (verb): To throw (for the "plunge" action in some contexts).
- Que, thanh (noun): Stick, bar (for the "small bar" meaning).
- Thoi cho một trận: To give someone a beating.
- Nó bị bắt nạt và bị thoi cho một trận. (He was bullied and given a beating.)
- Nhanh như thoi: As fast as a shuttle; very fast.
- Cô ấy làm việc nhanh như thoi. (She works as fast as a shuttle.)