Definition

1. Verb:
   • To propagate; to disseminate: The primary meaning of "truyền bá" is to spread and make an idea, doctrine, knowledge, or belief widely known to many people or across many places.
   • To promote; to popularize: It involves actively working to increase the acceptance and understanding of a particular set of information or principles.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Họ mong muốn truyền bá tư tưởng hòa bình. (They wish to propagate thoughts of peace.)
  • Công việc của ông ấy là truyền bá kiến thức khoa học cơ bản. (His work is to disseminate basic scientific knowledge.)
  • Đạo Phật được truyền bá rộng rãi ở nhiều quốc gia. (Buddhism was widely propagated in many countries.)

Advanced Usage

• "truyền bá văn hóa": to promote/spread culture.
  • Nhiệm vụ của trung tâm là truyền bá văn hóa Việt Nam ra nước ngoài. (The center's mission is to promote Vietnamese culture abroad.)

Variants and Related Words

• Truyền đạt (v): to convey, to impart (knowledge or information, often in a teaching context).

  • Giáo viên truyền đạt bài học cho học sinh. (The teacher imparts the lesson to the students.)

• Phổ biến (v): to popularize, to disseminate. This is a close synonym but can sometimes imply making something common or widespread in a more general sense.

  • Phổ biến kiến thức pháp luật. (To popularize legal knowledge.)

Synonyms

• Disseminate: to spread information widely.
• Propagate: to spread and promote an idea or theory.
• Promote: to further the progress or acceptance of something.
• Diffuse: to spread over a wide area.

Related Idioms

• While "truyền bá" itself is not commonly part of a fixed idiom, its meaning is central to phrases like:
  • Truyền bá tư tưởng: to propagate an ideology.
  • Truyền bá đạo lý: to spread a moral doctrine.

verb

1. to propagate