trảm
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Definition
- Verb:
- To behead; to decapitate: To execute someone by cutting off their head, typically as a formal punishment. This is the core and historical meaning of the word.
- To execute by beheading: Specifically refers to carrying out a death sentence via decapitation.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Tên phản nghịch bị xử trảm. (The rebel was sentenced to be beheaded.)
- Lệnh trảm được thi hành tại pháp trường. (The beheading order was carried out at the execution ground.)
Advanced Usage
- The word "trảm" is almost exclusively used in historical, legal, or literary contexts related to feudal justice or warfare. It is not used in modern, everyday conversation.
- "Tiền trảm hậu tấu": An idiom meaning "behead first, report later." It describes the exceptional authority granted to a feudal official or general to execute someone on the spot for a grave offense before reporting the matter to the king.
Variants and Related Words
- Xử trảm (v): To sentence to beheading; to carry out a beheading.
- Phiên tòa kết án xử trảm. (The court sentenced him to beheading.)
Synonyms
- To behead: The direct equivalent.
- To decapitate: A more formal or clinical term.
Related Idioms
- Tiền trảm hậu tấu: To act with immediate, supreme authority, especially in meting out punishment, without needing prior approval.
- Vị tướng được vua ban cho quyền "tiền trảm hậu tấu". (The general was granted the authority of "behead first, report later" by the king.)
verb
- to behead