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

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鞭

• A whip; a lash; to lash.

• bé-piⁿ;

  a horsewhip.

• i pun i piⁿ-phah cèk peh ē;

  he received a hundred lashes from him.

• phûe piⁿ;

  a leathern whip.

• sái sang piⁿ;

  wield a pair of bludgeons.

邊

• On the border or side; the margin.

• lâi cŏ̤ pàng úa sin-piⁿ;

  come and sit beside me.

• châng piⁿ châng, chù piⁿ chù;

  their fields and houses adjoin.

• cêk piⁿ co̤h chîeⁿ nŏ̤ piⁿ kng;

  the party who builds the partition wall, makes both sides of it smooth.

• i cò̤-nî jĭm hàm m̄ bûa piⁿ?;

  Why does he not come when he is called?

• tŏ̤ hìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

  on the other side.

• kàu cìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

  has reached this side.

• hue piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

  the milled dollar.

• hût piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

  dollars having a head on one side.

• tói piⁿ;

  the inner face.

• gūa piⁿ;

  the outer face.

• i chùi piⁿ seⁿ lîap kì;

  he has a mole on the side of his mouth.

• cí kâi sĭ i sin-piⁿ kâi nâng;

  this is his companion or concubine.

辮

• The queue.

• pĭⁿ piⁿ;

  plait the queue.

• i kâi piⁿ ŭ ciap cáng a bô̤?;

  Does he wear false hair in his queue?

• i cang piⁿ hiuh i;

  he struck her with his queue.

• cáng i kâi piⁿ;

  clutched his queue.

• cêk nâng túi piⁿ, cêk nâng peⁿ kha;

  one dragged him by the queue

  and the other by his feet.

• pĭⁿ nŏ̤ kí píⁿ-kíaⁿ;

  braid two little queues.

• piⁿ jṳ̂ căi;

  his queue in unkempt.

• khŵn piⁿ;

  wind the queue around the head.

• piⁿ tá cò̤ cang-kíaⁿ-lô̤;

  coil up the queue in a knot at the back of the head.

• siu piⁿ;

  comb the queue.

• lâu piⁿ;

  let the hair grow out to form a queue.

• i thì tīo piⁿ khṳ̤̀ cò̤ hûe-sīeⁿ;

  he shaved off his queue and became a priest.

• piⁿ búe so̤h;

  the silk braided into the queue.

扁

• Flat; thin.

• cêk kò̤ cîeh píⁿ-píⁿ;

  a thin slab of stone.

• i kâi mīn seⁿ lâi pô̤h-píⁿ;

  her face is very thin.

• teh kàu nĕ píⁿ-píⁿ;

  pressed down very flat.

• iⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ îⁿ, píⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ píⁿ;

  it is all out of shape.

• i kâi chài-pó tâh kàu píⁿ-píⁿ;

  his dried turnips are trampled down flat.

變

• To transform; to change; a mutation from one state of being to another or to the original condition.

• pìⁿ mīn;

  to change countenance.

• i ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ nâng;

  it is metamorphosed into a human being.

• i ŏi kōi pìⁿ a bŏi?;

  Is it apt to change?

• cong-kú bŏi pìⁿ;

  never changes.

• pìⁿ cò̤ kúi;

  turns into a demon.

• i bô̤ tau bô̤ tah, cū pìⁿ mīn pìⁿ súi;

  he changes countenance when there is not the least occasion for it.

• i hŵn lío pìⁿ būe chŵn;

  its transformation is not yet complete.

• jĭm sói bŏi pìⁿ sek;

  will endure washing without changing its color.

• cṳ-nîe-kíaⁿ câp-poih pìⁿ;

  a young girl goes through many transformations.

• i cí ău pìⁿ kàu hó̤ căi;

  he is lately much changed for the better.

• ŭ khi sua-hṳ̂ ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ hóⁿ;

  there is a species of shark that changes into a tiger.

辮

• To braid; to plait; braid.

• pĭⁿ cò̤ cêk tio so̤h;

  plait it and make a rope of it.

• pĭⁿ piⁿ;

  braid the queue.

• phah pĭⁿ;

  make braids.

• hue pĭⁿ;

  flowered braid.

• kim pĭⁿ;

  gold braid.

• pĭⁿ àiⁿ pĭⁿ kín a pĭⁿ khùaⁿ?;

  Do you wish to have the braid plaited tightly or loosely?

辯

• To dispute; to argue; to wrangle for a notion.

• póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

  to argue the point; to force a construction; to dispute a proposition.

• i m̄ khéng sù-hôk, cong-kú tó̤ póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

  he is unwilling to submit, and is forever arguing the point.

• mih hō̤ ūe i to póiⁿ-pĭⁿ ŭ lâi;

  he will take the contrary side in whatever one advocates.