A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect (汕頭方言音義字典) / kuah

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刻

• To cut out; to chisel; to carve.

• kuah ìn;

  engrave a seal.

• kuah cò̤ cìe-pâi;

  engrave a sign board.

• kuah cò̤ hue-cío;

  engrave in representation of natural scenery.

• kuah cò̤ nâng-kíaⁿ;

  carve representations of human figures.

• i ŏi kuah lám-hût;

  he knows how to carve olive pits.

• kuah cò̤ pêⁿ tói kĭa kîⁿ kâi;

  carve a flat center and raised border.

• kuah kang;

  a wood-carver.

葛

• An edible creeper; relatives.

• hun-kuah;

  sweet potatoes.

• hun-kuah hún;

  pototo flour.

• hun-kuah îⁿ;

  pellets made from potato flour.

• pû hun-kuah thng;

  make potato soup.

• lâk-gûeh hun-kuah sang sí;

  in the sixth month the sweet potatoes are extremely mealy.

• hip sêk hun-kuah;

  cook potatoes in a closely covered dish with little water.

• cṳ́ cho̤h hun-kuah hîeh lâi cîah;

  boil some sweet potato leaves to eat.

• kuah-pò;

  a coarse sleazy cloth.

• kio i sĭm-mih kue-kuah?

  Is there any relationship between them?

• hun-kuah tîn;

  sweet potato vines.

• hun-kuah thâu hó̤ khṳt tṳ cîah;

  the parings of the potatoes may be given to the pigs.

• hun-kuah phûe màiⁿ peh cêk koiⁿ;

  do not scatter the potato peel all around.

• hun-kuah nêk;

  the fleshy part of the tuber.

割

• To cut; to gash; to divide; to deduct; to take off; to cede; to turn a debt over to a creditor.

• kuah tīo;

  cut off.

• kuah m̄ tn̆g;

  can’t cut it in two.

• kuah cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;

  cut it in two.

• sìo-bâk kuah cheng-chó̤;

  the accounts have been settled by a transfer of bills.

• kuah sìo, kuah tît lío;

  to take off from one account, and transfer to another till one is settled.

• i kuah tŏ̤ móng nâng kò̤ hâiⁿ úa ngŏ-câp ngṳ̂n;

  he turned over to me a portion of a certain person’s debt to him, and by so doing paid me fifty dollars.

• i kuah cêk tîo sìo;

  he turned over an account to me.

• kò nâng lâi kuah tĭu;

  hire people to reap grain.

• nìn kâi tĭu hó̤ kuah a būe?

  Is your grain ready to cut?

• kuah khṳ̀ ŭ sîaⁿ a bô̤?

  Did the harvest yield above the average?

• kuah tîeh chíu;

  have cut my hand.

• phīⁿ chàu-chàu, m̄ cîaⁿ kuah tīo;

  one does not cut off his nose for smelling a stink.

• khṳt cúi kuah tīo;

  worn away by water.

• kuah-sía m̄ khui;

  could not sever.

• cang sùaⁿ kuah kúe;

  use a thread to cut cake.

渴

• Thirst; to thirst after.

• âu ta so̤h kuah;

  my throat is parched.

• mō̤ⁿ bûe cí kuah;

  looking at the plums to quench his thirst.

• kháu kuah;

  thirsty.

• tó li khùn, âu li kuah;

  both hungry and thirsty.

• kói kuah;

  allays thirst.

• cí īeⁿ îeh ŏi cí kuah;

  this medicine alleviates thirst.