Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/am

by Adele Marion Fielde

am

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• A religious house; a Buddhist temple.

am-tn̂g;

a convent or monastery.

am-kẁn; am-īⁿ;

monastic estalishments.

nî-ko am;

a nunnery.

hûe-sīeⁿ am;

a monastery.

jîp am;

to become a monk or a nun.

cháu am;

our wretched hermitage.

am lăi;

in religious retirement.

hûe-sīeⁿ bô seng-lí thiah am lêng-ūaⁿ khí;

when priests have no other lucrative employment, they take their temples to pieces and rebuild them.

tôk chut am;

expelled from the monastery.

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• Concave, like the sky.

am-bô;

a hollow hemisphere like the sky.

am-bô am-bô nē;

convex on the upper surface and concave on the under.

màiⁿ cò̤ khah am-bô;

do not make it too arching.

cò̤ lâi am-am nē;

made very concave.

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• A garden slug; a snail.

nŏ̤ kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ tó̤ kă am-lo̤;

two children are trying to make snails fight.

am-lo̤ khak;

snail shells.

am-lo̤ thâng;

the snails themselves.

• 諳am6211499
• Versed in; knowing about.

am-līen;

skilled in any craft or art.

m̄ am sì sṳ̄;

ignorant of the world.

• 骯髒am-cam949
• Obese; fat; dirty.

am-cam pûi;

corpulent.

am-cam cîah;

to eat hoggishly.

• 飯水ám127
• Water in which rice has been boiled.

cìm ám;

soak in rice-water.

cîah ám;

drink rice-water.

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• Dark; obscure; secret; clandestine; stealthily.

jît àiⁿ àm lío;

it is growing dark.

jît àm;

at dusk.

màiⁿ khah àm lâi;

do not come too late in the evening.

mông-mông àm-àm;

misty and dark.

thiⁿ o, tī àm;

utter darkness.

o-o àm-àm;

midnight darkness.

àm-cĕⁿ;

secretly.

àm-cĕⁿ sĭeⁿ;

secretly thought.

àm pâng;

secret compartment.

àm húang;

secretly ascertain.

àm hāi;

secretly injure.

cò̤ kâi àm hō̤;

made a secret sign.

phah àm hô̤h;

gave a secret signal.

mêng chieⁿ kōi tng, àm cìⁿ lâng hûang;

a visible spear is easily withstood, a secret arrow is hard to guard against.

thâu hîn, mâk àm;

vertigo.

àm co̤h àm cĕⁿ;

clandestine.

àm lûn;

a concealed spring.

àm kau;

a covered drain.

àm tang cò̤ sṳ̄;

underhand doings.

àm pau cí kâi ì-sṳ̄ tŏ̤ lăi;

has this meaning involved in it.

àm chì máng;

the silent mosquito.

àm hâh;

secretly agreeing.

àm ieh;

a private understanding.

àm-thâu;

hades.

àm tō̤;

a hidden pocket.

àm-àm khṳ̂ cò̤;

secretly went and did it.

sim-gî seⁿ àm kúi;

the imagination creates ghosts.

lṳ́ ŏi ùi àm a bŏi?

Are you afraid in the dark?

lṳ́ cŏ̤ pàng hìeⁿ àm kò̤ cò̤-nî?

Why do you sit where it is so dark?

àm kè-thâu;

a private price.

bô̤ kng, bô̤ àm;

no two prices.

cîah o-àm pn̄g;

eat the bread of sorrow.

khṳt i àm cîah jìeh cōi cîⁿ;

had no inconsiderable amount of money privately used up by him.

àm kâi cōi kùe kng kâi;

what is concealed is more than what is manifest.

àm-cĕⁿ sái ēng;

what was clandestinely used up.

sái àm chieⁿ;

employ an assassin.

hun-hun àm-àm;

badly lighted.

àm-châng;

hidden, concealed.

kìm tŏ̤ o-àm koiⁿ kò̤;

shut up in the dark.

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• The neck; a narrow part of a thing.

i khṳ̀ tìo ăm, khṳt nâng kìu tîeh, bŏi sí;

he went and hung himself, but was rescued by some one, and did not die.

i kâi ăm chun tn̂g-tn̂g tó̤ thó̤iⁿ;

he was gazing with outstretched neck.

i kâi ăm kéng-kéng;

his neck is long and crooked.

teh kàu ăm khi-khi;

weighed down by it so that his neck is awry.

cai kio i kùa ăm-ûi;

remember to put his bib on him.

i kâi ăm kùa cêk pak sù-cu;

he wears a rosary around his neck.

i kâi ăm ío tó̤;

his neck is rather short.

kâi ăm seⁿ lêk;

he has king's-evil.

līu i kâi ăm;

strangle him.

ăm tèng cêk kâi gṳ̄;

"Adam's apple."

i pûah cîh ăm kut;

he fell and broke his neck.

i kâi ăm lun-lun;

his neck is short and thick.

chê i kâi ăm-kíaⁿ;

throttled him.

i tó̤ khap thâu, lìam ăm;

he is knocking his head on the ground, and pinching his neck, (as in begging vehemently).

lìam ăm;

to pinch the neck violently as a counter irritant.

tn̂g ăm cun;

a long-necked bottle.

i kâi ăm híam-híam khṳt nâng pho̤h tn̆g;

he came very near getting his neck cut in two.

cŭn koi kâi ăm;

wring the neck of a fowl.

ăm kṳn tau;

a crick in the neck.

ăm tèng seⁿ kâi lîu;

has goitre.

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• To take into the mouth, as for swallowing.

lṳ́ kâi chùi ăm sĭm-mih mûeh tŏ̤?

What have you got in your mouth?

khah tōa kò̤, ăm m̄ lô̤h;

it is too big a piece, I cannot take it into my mouth.

cêk chùi ăm nŏ̤ kâi;

took two at one mouthful.

màiⁿ ăm khah tōa chùi;

do not take too large mouthfuls.

ăm tit jîp, thun m̄ lô̤h;

can take it into the mouth, but cannot swallow it.