đập lúa
Definition
- Verb phrase:
- To thresh rice: The primary meaning of "đập lúa" is the agricultural process of separating rice grains from their stalks and husks by beating or striking the harvested rice plants.
Usage Examples
- Verb phrase:
- Nông dân đang đập lúa trên sân phơi. (The farmers are threshing rice on the drying yard.)
- Trước đây, người ta thường đập lúa bằng tay. (In the past, people often threshed rice by hand.)
- Công việc đập lúa rất vất vả. (The work of threshing rice is very laborious.)
Advanced Usage
- The term specifically refers to the action applied to (rice plants). For other grains, different verbs may be used (e.g., "đập lúa mì" for threshing wheat is less common; "tuốt lúa" is a more specific synonym for hand-threshing).
Variants and Related Words
Máy đập lúa (n): threshing machine.
- Máy đập lúa giúp tiết kiệm rất nhiều sức lao động. (The threshing machine saves a lot of manual labor.)
Tuốt lúa (v): to strip rice grains from the stalk, often by hand.
- Bà tôi vẫn nhớ những ngày tuốt lúa thuở nhỏ. (My grandmother still remembers the days of stripping rice when she was young.)
Synonyms
- Thresh: the general English term for beating cereal plants to separate the grain.
- Separate the grain: a descriptive phrase for the action.
Related Idioms
- While there is no direct idiom with "đập lúa," the process is central to the idiom "Một nắng hai sương" (One sun, two dews), which describes the hard work of farmers, encompassing all stages from planting to threshing rice.