Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/khap

by Adele Marion Fielde

khap

• 伏khap15294
• To lie with the face downwards.

lṳ́ àiⁿ ût m̄ hó̤ khap lô̤h khṳ̀;

if you are going to lie down do not lie on your face.

i khap tó̤ ût;

he is lying face downward.

• 䫬khap1618112
• To hang the head.

thâu khap-khap, m̄ káⁿ tìeⁿ phû;

hung his head, and would not look up.

kîaⁿ lō, thâu khap-khap;

going along with his head hung down.

i kìⁿ tîeh cṳ-nîe hùe thâu cū khap-lô̤h;

if he sees a woman he hangs his head.

• 蓋khap30714010
• To impress; to set a seal.

khîeh khṳ̀ khap ìn;

take it and set a seal on it, or have it printed.

nîe lío, cí mīn tèng khap kâi ìn;

when you have measured it set a seal on the upper surface.

ìn àiⁿ cò̤-nî khap?

What sort of an impression do you want to set upon it?

khap kâi ìn tŏ̤ i sin tèng;

set a mark on his person.

• 搕khap4306410
• To cover with the hand.

khap kúi kâi kap-kíu lâi cîah;

caught under the hand a few frogs to eat.

khap cháu-méⁿ chī koi;

catch grasshoppers to feed the fowls.

khap tîeh kâi hô-sîn;

caught a fly by putting the hand over it.

• 恰khap357616
• Opportunely; to the purpose; fitly.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤ cū khap tàng;

that is just the thing to do.

khap hó̤ ngŏ̤ tîeh móng nâng lâi cìaⁿ cai;

it happened very opportunely that a certain person just then came and made the thing known to us.

cò̤ kàu khap hó̤ kâi ūi-chṳ̀;

prepared a suitable place.

• 闔khap21816910
• The whole; the entire body of.

khap kun kong khi;

the whole department unites in this public notice.

khap ip kâi sin sṳ̆ lóng-cóng khṳ̀ lâu jīm;

all the gentry and literati of the place have gone to perform the duties of their offices.

• 磕khâp43011210
• To hit against.

khâp thâu; khâp thâu khâp hîah;

bumped their heads together.

khâp saⁿ ē thau;

lay the forehead on the floor three times.

pûah lô̤h khṳ̀ khâp tîeh mīn;

fell and hit his face.

ŏi khâp hueh lâu a bŏi?

Did the concussion cause bleeding?

i kâi thâu khâp kàu kâi ăⁿ;

he bumped his head so hard as to make a bruise.

• 兢khâp4051012
• To fear; to forbear from; cautious.

kiaⁿ kàu khap-khap-sih;

in an agony of fear.

• 扻khâp315644
• To strike, to knock.

nŏ̤ nâng khâp thóiⁿ tī-tîang îaⁿ;

they are seeing which of the two can out-do the other in a fight.