viêm nhiệt
Definition
- Noun:
- Intense heat / sweltering heat: Refers to weather or a period of exceptionally high and oppressive temperature, often causing discomfort.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Mùa hè ở đây là mùa viêm nhiệt. (Summer here is a season of intense heat.)
- Cơn viêm nhiệt của mùa hạ khiến mọi người chỉ muốn ở trong nhà. (The sweltering heat of summer makes everyone want to stay indoors.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is literary and somewhat formal. It is used to describe climatic heat, not metaphorical "heat" like excitement or anger.
Variants and Related Words
Nóng bức (adj): hot, stifling (a more common, everyday term for hot weather).
- Thời tiết hôm nay thật nóng bức. (The weather today is really hot and stifling.)
Hỏa nhiệt (n): fiery heat (a term more common in traditional medicine contexts, referring to internal "heat" in the body).
Synonyms
- Sweltering heat
- Scorching heat
- Intense heat
Related Idioms
- itself is not commonly used in idioms. The concept of heat is more frequently expressed in idioms using words like nóng (hot) or nắng (sun).
