trồng trỉa
Definition
- Verb:
- To cultivate crops; to engage in agricultural work: The word "trồng trỉa" refers to the general activity of planting, tending, and growing crops. It encompasses the various tasks involved in farming.
- To farm; to practice tillage: It describes the process of working the land to produce plants, especially for food.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Ông bà tôi cả đời gắn bó với công việc trồng trỉa trên đồng ruộng. (My grandparents spent their whole lives attached to the work of cultivating crops in the fields.)
- Nghề trồng trỉa đòi hỏi nhiều kinh nghiệm và sự chăm chỉ. (The work of farming requires a lot of experience and diligence.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "trồng trỉa" is often used in a general, collective sense to refer to agricultural activities as a whole. It is slightly more formal or literary than some everyday synonyms.
Variants and Related Words
Trồng trọt (v): This is a direct and more common synonym meaning to cultivate, to farm. The reference definition notes that "trồng trỉa" is equivalent to "trồng trọt."
- Nông dân đang bận rộn với việc trồng trọt. (The farmers are busy with cultivation.)
Cày cấy (v): to plow and sow; to engage in the core tasks of rice farming.
- Mùa cày cấy đã bắt đầu. (The plowing and sowing season has begun.)
Synonyms
- Cultivate: to prepare and use land for crops.
- Farm: to practice agriculture.
- Tillage: the operation of preparing land for growing crops.
Related Idioms
- Bán mặt cho đất, bán lưng cho trời: (lit. to sell one's face to the earth, one's back to the sky) An idiom describing the hard, sun-baked labor of a farmer's life, closely associated with the work of "trồng trỉa."
- Cuộc sống trồng trỉa thật vất vả, đúng là "bán mặt cho đất, bán lưng cho trời". (The life of farming is very hard, truly "selling one's face to the earth and one's back to the sky.")