trồng cấy
Definition
- Verb:
- To cultivate and transplant; to grow (rice): The primary meaning of "trồng cấy" refers to the agricultural process of planting seeds or seedlings and then transplanting them to a permanent field, especially in the context of wet rice cultivation.
- To cultivate / to grow crops: More broadly, it can mean the general activity of growing and tending to cultivated plants.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Nông dân đang bận rộn với việc trồng cấy lúa. (Farmers are busy with the work of transplanting rice.)
- Kỹ thuật trồng cấy mới giúp tăng năng suất. (The new cultivation technique helps increase yield.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "trồng cấy" is deeply associated with traditional, labor-intensive agriculture, particularly paddy rice farming, which involves specific stages like sowing seeds in a seedbed and later transplanting the young shoots into flooded fields.
Variants and Related Words
Trồng trọt (v): to cultivate, to farm (a more general term for crop cultivation).
- Họ sống bằng nghề trồng trọt. (They live by farming.)
Cấy lúa (v): to transplant rice seedlings.
- Mùa cấy lúa thường bắt đầu vào tháng Sáu. (The rice transplanting season usually starts in June.)
Synonyms
- Cultivate: to prepare and use land for crops.
- Transplant: to move a plant from one place and plant it in another.
- Grow crops: to produce plants for food or other uses.
Related Idioms
- While "trồng cấy" itself is not commonly used in idioms, it is a fundamental concept in phrases related to agriculture and livelihood, such as "một nắng hai sương" (toiling in the sun and dew), which describes the hard work of farmers.