thâm dạ
Definition
- Adjective:
- Deep night / dead of night: Refers to the deepest, darkest, and quietest part of the night, typically very late when it is completely dark and most people are asleep.
- Profound darkness: Describes an intense, pervasive darkness characteristic of the late night hours.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Cánh rừng im lặng trong đêm thâm dạ. (The forest was silent in the dead of night.)
- Họ trò chuyện cho tới lúc thâm dạ. (They talked until the deep night.)
- Tiếng mưa rơi giữa cảnh thâm dạ. (The sound of rain falling in the profound darkness.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is primarily used in literary, poetic, or formal descriptive contexts to evoke a specific mood or imagery of late-night stillness and darkness.
Variants and Related Words
Đêm khuya (n): late night.
- Tiếng chó sủa trong đêm khuya. (The sound of dogs barking in the late night.)
Nửa đêm (n): midnight.
- Chuông đồng hồ điểm mười hai giờ nửa đêm. (The clock struck twelve midnight.)
Synonyms
- Dead of night: The middle of the night when it is darkest and quietest.
- Deep of night: A literary term for the darkest period of the night.
- The wee hours: The very early hours of the morning, after midnight.
Related Idioms
Khuya khoắt: very late at night, emphasizing the lateness of the hour.
- Anh ấy làm việc đến khuya khoắt. (He worked until the very late hours.)
Đêm hôm khuya khoắt: a phrase emphasizing a very deep and late part of the night.
- Cô ấy thức đọc sách đêm hôm khuya khoắt. (She stayed up reading until the deep, late night.)