đắp
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Definition
- Verb:
- To cover with a layer: To place or spread a material over a surface, typically to protect, warm, or decorate it.
- To build up by adding material: To add and shape material, such as earth or clay, to raise a level, form a structure, or create a shape.
- To apply a substance: To put a substance, often medicinal or cosmetic, onto a surface like skin.
Usage Examples
- To cover:
- Trời lạnh, con hãy đắp chăn vào. (It's cold, please cover yourself with a blanket.)
- Công nhân đang đắp nhựa đường. (The workers are covering the road with asphalt.)
- To build up / shape:
- Người ta đắp đê để ngăn lũ. (People build/bank up dikes to prevent floods.)
- Nghệ nhân đắp một pho tượng Phật bằng đất sét. (The artisan shaped a Buddha statue from clay.)
- To apply a substance:
- Cô ấy đắp mặt nạ dưỡng da. (She applies a nourishing face mask.)
- Bác sĩ bảo đắp thuốc lên vết thương. (The doctor said to apply the medicine to the wound.)
Advanced Usage
- "đắp điếm": To cover up, to gloss over (often used figuratively for hiding faults or mistakes).
- Hắn chỉ biết đắp điếm cho những sai lầm của mình. (He only knows how to cover up his own mistakes.)
- "đắp chiếu" (idiomatic): Literally "to cover with a mat," meaning to cease operations temporarily or to shut down a business.
- Quán ăn đã phải đắp chiếu vì ế khách. (The restaurant had to shut down due to a lack of customers.)
Variants and Related Words
- Đắp đổi (verb): To exchange, to trade (often in the context of bartering or making do).
- Sống qua ngày bằng nghề đắp đổi. (To make a living by trading.)
- Bồi đắp (verb): To silt up; to nourish, to cultivate (figuratively for knowledge, feelings).
- Phù sa bồi đắp cho đồng bằng. (Alluvial silt builds up the delta.)
- Bồi đắp tình cảm. (To nurture feelings.)
- Vun đắp (verb): To nurture, to foster (relationships, love, career).
- Vun đắp hạnh phúc gia đình. (To foster family happiness.)
Synonyms
- Phủ (verb): To cover, to spread over.
- Bồi (verb): To add layers, to build up by depositing material.
- Nặn (verb): To mold, to shape (specifically with hands).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Đắp vào: To cover/put on something.
- Đắp thêm đất vào gốc cây. (To add more soil around the tree base.)
- Đắp lên: To cover over something.
- Đắp một lớp vữa lên tường. (To apply a layer of mortar onto the wall.)
Related Idioms
- "Đắp nợ đắp công": To accumulate debts or merits over time; to describe a long, ongoing process of building something (often intangible).
- Sự nghiệp của ông ấy là cả một quá trình đắp nợ đắp công. (His career is the result of a long process of accumulated effort.)
- "Non kia ai đắp mà cao, sông kia ai bới ai đào mà sâu?" (Ca dao): A rhetorical folk verse pondering the natural world's origins. "Who built that mountain so high, who dug that river so deep?"
verb
- to emtank; to bank; to cover with