Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/buang

by Adele Marion Fielde

búang

• 妄búang1045383
• Disorderly; unseemly; wild; reckless.

khûang-búang căi;

frantically.

búang cò̤, búang ûi;

disorderly conduct.

búang cṳ̆ cun tōa;

wildly boast of one's self.

chàu búang;

unseemly.

chŵn bô̤ búang suah peh-sèⁿ;

never executes people without reason.

ūe màiⁿ búang tàⁿ;

do not talk at random.

• 忘bûang1044613
• To disregard; to forget or neglect.

bûang pún;

forget a benefactor or parent.

bûang ṳn, hŭ ngĭ;

be ungrateful.

put lêng bûang chêng;

I can never forget this kindness.

ŭ kâi kìen bûang kâi pēⁿ;

is very forgetful, or absent minded.

cêk sî bûang-kìⁿ;

it slipped my mind at the moment.

• 亡bûang104481
• Destroyed; lost; utterly gone.

sí bûang;

dead and gone.

tīn bûang;

destroyed in battle.

păi bûang;

utterly defeated.

chut bûang;

a forgotten fugitive in other lands, as a refugee prince.

bûang mīaⁿ;

a ruined life.

bûang kok;

an extinct dynasty.

pāi kok bûang ke;

subvert the kingdom and destroy the house.

mît bûang;

no trace left.

• 望bŭang1045747
• The full of the moon.

suak bŭang;

the first and the fifteenth of the month.

câp-ngŏ jit kìe-cò̤ bŭang;

the fifteenth of the month is called the day of full moon.

tōa miaⁿ bŭang kâi nâng;

one whose name is widely known.

hó̤ mîaⁿ bŭang;

of good repute.

jît gûeh sie tùi kìe-cò̤ bŭang;

the sun and moon being opposite each other, they are said to be in opposition.