đơm
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
- Verb:
- To serve (food): To place cooked food, especially rice, from a serving dish into an individual's bowl or plate.
- To sew on: To attach something, like a button or decoration, to fabric by sewing.
- To fish with a trap: To catch fish using a specific type of conical or funnel-shaped bamboo trap (called an "đó" or "đơm").
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Mẹ đơm cơm cho cả nhà. (Mother serves rice for the whole family.)
- Cô ấy đơm lại chiếc cúc bị rơi. (She sewed the fallen button back on.)
- Ngư dân đi đơm cá trên sông. (The fisherman went to trap fish on the river.)
Advanced Usage
"đơm đó": This phrase specifically refers to the act of setting or using a bamboo fish trap.
- Ông lão sống bằng nghề đơm đó. (The old man makes a living by fishing with traps.)
"đơm đặt": To fabricate, to invent (a story, accusation). This is a figurative, negative usage.
- Anh ta bịa chuyện, đơm đặt những điều không đúng. (He made up stories, fabricating untrue things.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đơm hoa kết trái (idiomatic verb phrase): To bear fruit, to come to fruition (often used for plans, efforts, or love).
- Mong rằng dự án sẽ sớm đơm hoa kết trái. (I hope the project will soon bear fruit.)
Synonyms
- To serve: to dish out, to ladle.
- To sew on: to attach, to stitch on.
- To trap: to catch, to ensnare (for fish).
Related Idioms
- Đơm đó ngọn tre: Literally "to set a fish trap on a treetop." It means to attempt the impossible or to engage in a futile effort.
- Làm việc đó chẳng khác nào đơm đó ngọn tre. (Doing that is like trying to set a fish trap in a treetop.)
- Fish with a bamboo fish trap
- Đơm đó ngọn treTo seek a hare in a hen's nest
- Bamboo fish trap (placed against a current)
- Đi đặt mấy cái đơmTo go and lay someone bamboo fish trap (in the river)
- Serve out
- Đơm cơm vào bátTo serve out rice into bowls (from the pot)
- Sew on (buttons...)
- Đơm khuy vào áoTo sew buttons on a jacket