Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/bo

by Adele Marion Fielde

bó

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• A wife.

ang bó;

husband and wife.

bó kíaⁿ;

wife and children.

chūa bó;

marry a wife.

sieh bó;

be kind to a wife.

ùi bó;

afraid of a wife.

cháu-thâu kâi bó;

his first wife.

ki chú kâi bó;

ciap ki kâi bó; inferior wife.

ău bó;

second wife.

soiⁿ kâi bó hó̤, ău kâi bó m̄-hó̤;

his former wife was a good one, his present wife is not.

cang cáu-kíaⁿ kè khṳt i cò̤ bó̤;

gave his daughter to him to be his wife.

chūa i kâi a-ko cò̤ bó;

married his aunt.

i kâi bó sĭ ún kâi píe kâi;

his wife is our cousin.

bó kâi cí-mūe kìe-cò̤ chi-î;

a wife's sisters are called sisters-in-law.

• 畝bó5881025
• The Chinese acre, which is 733 ⁠1/3⁠ square yards, or about one sixth of an English acre.

chân bó;

rice fields.

cêk bó tī;

an acre of land.

cêk khẃn sĭ cêk peh bó;

the largest land measure is one hundred acres.

nín hak ŭ jîeh cōi bó chân-hn̂g?

How many acres of arrable land do you own?

cí-kò̤ kâi chân, ke hùe, hak ŭ jîeh cōi bó?

Of the fields about here, how many acres are owned by those who own the most?

bó tī, cìa ká ŭ jîeh cōi thn̂g?

How much sugar can you get from an acre of sugar cane?

cîaⁿ câp bó tī hún-kuah;

about ten acres of sweet potatoes.

cí kò̤ chù-tī ŭ câp bó khuah;

this building lot contains ten acres.

cí kâi tī cìeⁿ khuah, cêk nî ēng lâp jîeh cōi bó chân nîe?

On a piece of land as large as this how much must be paid annually in taxes?

ŵn-nîe sĭ cìe bó sǹg-sìo;

government taxes are reckoned according to the number of acres.

ún cí-kò̤ kâi tī pí nín kò̤ ío hó̤ cèng-co̤h, cêk bó siu ke cêk ûe;

our land here is better than is yours for agriculture, and we can get twice as much from it.

cí kò̤ chân thóiⁿ tîeh bó-siaⁿ ío ôih;

I should think this lot the smaller.

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bó-toaⁿ;

the peony.

bó-toaⁿ phûe;

the bark of the peony, used in medicine.

• 模bô6057511
• A mold; a form or guide to go by; a pattern.

ìn kâi cńg-thâu bô;

to set one's signature by pressing the inked thumb on a document.

cù tíaⁿ kâi tíaⁿ-bô;

the molds used in casting iron pans; thô bô; a clay mold.

cîeh bô;

a stone mold.

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• The vault of heaven, referring to its arched expanse.

am-bô;

over-arching; rounding upward; a space hollowed out.

i kâi īeⁿ am-bô am-bô;

it is of a vaultlike shape.

màiⁿ cò̤ khah am-bô;

do not make it so that it rounds upward too much.

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• The fifth in the cycle of ten; it relates to earth.

bō sĭ sôk câp thien-kang. cí câp kâi sĭ thien-kang, sôk îang; hṳ́ câp-jī kâi sĭ tī-ciⁿ, sôk im;

these ten are the heavenly cycle, and pertain to the male principle in nature; those twelve are the earthly cycle and pertain to the female principle in nature.

câp thien-kang, lâi phùi câp-jī tī-ciⁿ, sǹg kàu lâk-câp kâi cū kàu;

the cycle of ten reckoned ten times, matches the cycle of twelve reckoned five times.