How do you say “sickle” in Vietnamese?

“Sickle” in Vietnamese is liềm (sickle).

Vietnamese words for “sickle”

• liềmListennoun
  Hanoi [liəm˨˩] · Saigon [lim˨˩]liềm falling

  sickle

  for “sickle” meaning: An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

  • Anh ấy đang lượm cỏ vừa gặt bằng liềm.He is collecting the grass that he had cut with a sickle.

Related Vietnamese words

• lưỡi liềmListennoun

  crescent; hooked; curved

• vằngListennoun

  to swing side-to-side

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.