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

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名

• A name, that which designates a person or thing; the given name of people, as distinguished from the clan name, and from the style or title; a person; fame; reputation; a title; credit; merit; renowned; celebrated; well known; nominal; to name, to designate.

• cin mîaⁿ, sîⁿ jī;

  the true name.

• khîn mîaⁿ;

  peck fame.

• cìaⁿ mîaⁿ;

  correct name.

• mîaⁿ-siaⁿ; mîaⁿ-sek;

  fame, reputation.

• tōa mîaⁿ-siaⁿ kâi nâng; ŭ mîaⁿ ŭ siaⁿ kâi nâng;

  a person of reputation.

• cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ ŭ sĭm-mih mîaⁿ mâk a būe?

  Is there any fixed or technical name by which such things are designated?

• mîaⁿ hō̤, mîaⁿ jī;

  a name, style or appellation taken by a person, firm or company.

• mîaⁿ ke;

  a reputable family.

• lṳ́ kìe cò sĭm-mih mîaⁿ?

  What is your name?

• mîaⁿ sèⁿ;

  name and surname.

• jú mîaⁿ, cṳ mîaⁿ, kuaⁿ mîaⁿ, thó mîaⁿ;

  the infantile, school, official, and common or local names of a person.

• pîet mîaⁿ;

  another or second name.

• nêk mîaⁿ;

  anonymous.

• măuⁿ mîaⁿ;

  take a false name.

• tíam mîaⁿ;

  to mark off names; to call a roll.

命

• Fate, destiny, luck; one’s appointed lot; the limit of the life of beings; animated; living creatures.

• cîah tn̂g mīaⁿ;

  live a long life.

• cí-kâi hó̤ mīaⁿ, hṳ́-kâi khó mīaⁿ;

  the one has a happy lot, and the other a hard one.

• sǹg mīaⁿ;

  calculate fates.

• lŭn mīaⁿ;

  discourse upon luck.

• tōa mīaⁿ, ùi a m̄-ùi?

  Do you fear death or not?

• i kâi sèⁿ-mīaⁿ tŏ̤ úa chíu;

  his life is in my hand.

• bô̤ sin ke, īa ŭ sèⁿ-mīaⁿ;

  those who have nothing else, have hfe.

• sieh kùe mīaⁿ-mêh;

  loves it more than life.

• t˘n̄g kùe mīaⁿ-ùaⁿ;

  it is a case of life and death.

• mīaⁿ-mn̂g;

  the gate of life, the medical term for the right kiduey, or a supposed passage between the rectum and bladder.

• sîeⁿ mīaⁿ;

  make reparation for life taken.

• phah sí nâng, mín sîeⁿ mīaⁿ;

  if you kill a man, you cannot avoid paying for his life.

• i ka-kī ẁn i pô̤h mīaⁿ;

  he himself complained of his hard fate.

• màiⁿ to̤ suah seⁿ-mīaⁿ;

  do not kill living creatures.

• mīaⁿ-ūn;

  one’s horoscope.

• hāi i sàng sèⁿ-mīaⁿ;

  caused him to lose his life.

• hāi mīaⁿ;

  destroy life.

• kim ku hāi mīaⁿ;

  the tortoise that laid golden eggs, cost its owner his life.