Định nghĩa

1. Danh từ:

   • Mudguard: A curved piece of metal or plastic over a wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle to protect the rider from water and mud splashes.
   • Folk satirical poem: A type of folk verse in rhyming form, often used to narrate true stories of people and events for the purpose of praise, criticism, or satire.
   • Level marker / Stake: A stick or pole placed in flooded fields, such as rice paddies, to indicate the water level.
   • Shoot / Offshoot: A young branch or sprout, especially of a rice plant.
   • (Rare, dialectal) Side glance: A quick, sideways look.

2. Động từ (hiếm, cổ):

   • To glance sideways: To look quickly and furtively out of the corner of one's eye.
   • (Nautical) To accost: For a boat to come alongside another boat.

Ví dụ sử dụng

• Danh từ (Mudguard):
  • Vè xe đạp của tôi bị gãy. (The mudguard of my bicycle is broken.)
• Danh từ (Folk poem):
  • Cụ già kể một bài vè về lịch sử làng. (The old man recited a folk verse about the village's history.)
• Danh từ (Level marker):
  • Người nông dân cắm vè để đo mực nước. (The farmer placed a stake to measure the water level.)
• Danh từ (Shoot):
  • Khi đi lúa chửa ra vè. (When I left, the rice plants had not yet produced shoots.)
• Động từ (To glance):
  • Anh ta vè mắt nhìn sang hàng xóm. (He glanced sideways at the neighbor.)

Cách dùng nâng cao

• The word "vè" is highly context-dependent. Its most common modern meaning is "mudguard." The meaning of "folk poem" is specific to Vietnamese folk culture and literature. The agricultural meanings ("stake," "shoot") are now less common and may be considered archaic or regional.

Biến thể và Từ liên quan

• Đặt vè / Kể vè (cụm động từ): To compose or to recite a folk satirical poem.
  • Họ ngồi quây quần để nghe kể vè. (They sat in a circle to listen to folk verses.)
• Cắm vè (cụm động từ): To place a stake (as a water level marker).

Từ đồng nghĩa

• Mudguard: fender.
• Folk poem: folk verse, satirical poem.
• Stake: pole, marker.
• Shoot: sprout, offshoot.
• To glance: to peek, to look furtively.

Thành ngữ liên quan

• Vè vè: (reduplication) Describes the repeated action of glancing sideways.
  • Đôi mắt cứ vè vè nhìn. (The eyes kept glancing sideways repeatedly.)

noun

1. mudguard