Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kim

by Adele Marion Fielde

kim

• 鰥kim47319510
• A huge fish found in the Yellow River and reported to be large enough to fill a cart: the story is that it cannot close its eyes and never sleeps.

cêk mêⁿ, mâk kim-kim, cn̂g kâi bŏi ût;

did not close my eyes the whole night, and was wholly unable to sleep.

mâk kim-kim;

eyes staring and unwinking.

• 今kim39892
• Now; presently.

kim jît;

to-day.

hīn-kim;

now.

cṳ̆ kó kàu kim;

from ancient times till now.

kim ău;

after this.

cṳ̆ kim íⁿ ău;

from this time forth.

kim nî;

this year.

kim sî;

the present time.

• 金kim3981670
• Gold, the metal par excellence; metal; golden; gilded; metalic; precious.

chiah kim;

red gold.

pêh kim;

silver.

ngŏ kim;

all the metals.

kim hîeh;

gold plate.

kim tîo;

bars of gold.

kheng cò̤ kim khò̤-thâu-si;

make it into shoes of gold.

kim hue piⁿ;

gold pieces.

kim pô̤h;

gold-leaf.

tûi cò̤ kim pô̤h;

beat it into gold leaf.

kim ngṳ̂n;

wealth; money.

cí hú phîn-tìeⁿ àiⁿ sía lûi kim kâi, a sĭ tah kim pô̤h cū hó̤?

Do you want the letters on this pair of screens written with pulverized gold, or will it do to make them by laying on gold-leaf?

khí tîo kim sùaⁿ;

make a gilded molding.

thiaⁿ lṳ́ kâi hó̤ kim ngân;

listen to your instructive words.

cok kim; câp cok kâi kim;

pure gold.

cí kâi kim ío kĕ;

this gold is adulterated more.

phah tîo kim līen;

make a gold chain.

lṳ́ sî-pie-līen sî kim kâi, a sĭ ngṳ̂n khṳ̀ līu kim kâi?

Is your watch-chain of gold, or is it silver washed with gold?

i chah ki kim jû-ì, kah kùa sang kim hĭⁿ-kau;

she wore a gold ornament in her hair, and a pair of gold ear-rings.

cĕng-cĕng sĭ kim kâi;

it is wholly of gold.

kim gêk;

gold and precious stones; valuable; precious.

i kâi nâng kim-kim gêk-gêk;

he is a very refined person.

kim cheⁿ;

the planet Venus.

cheⁿ kim cîeh;

malachite.

kim hue;

brass-leaf ornaments, made like flowers, and used as offerings.

kim sek;

golden.

choiⁿ kim;

your daughter.

kim kang cǹg;

a probe.

cū sî kim-kng, úa īa àiⁿ khàng i kò̤ thô;

though he were the gods that guard the temple gates I would treat him as if he were clay.

sì mīn kim thĭo, sûi nâng siah;

a pillar having its four sides of gold, does not mind which side is hewed at.

kio kim-hô-sîn hìeⁿ-seⁿ, phī-phī pue;

like a green fly fluttering along; a fine and glittering presence, and nothing besides.

• 錦kím3991678
• A kind of thin brocade; flowery.

câp kím kâi úaⁿ tîh;

painted chinaware.

tàⁿ kàu jû hue sṳ̆ kím;

speak in a very flowery style.

khang kím pĭⁿ;

trim with flowered braid.

pù-kùi m̄ kui kū hieⁿ, jû ì kím mêⁿ kîaⁿ;

to be rich and not return to one's native village, is like wearing brocade at night, (when no one sees it).

• 禁kìm4001138
• To restrain; to prohibit; to shut up; to keep off; to impose restrictions.

lîah i khṳ̀ kìm;

seize and imprison him.

i sĭ kìm tŏ̤ kam a kìm tŏ̤ ki?

Is he shut up in the jail, or in the lockup of the yamun?

kím i màiⁿ cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

forbid his doing thus.

kìm nâng bô̤ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

prohibit people from so doing.

chut kìm-tîo lâi tah, khṳt nâng cai;

issue a prohibitory placard to be stuck up, to let people know.

kìm sîaⁿ;

the Forbidden City, the Closed Citadel, His Majesty's residence.

cía sĭ hŭam-kìm kâi mûeh;

this is a contraband article.

kìm tī;

forbidden places.

i tó̤ cò̤ kìm-cí;

he acts as turnkey.

uî kìm;

disregard a prohibition.

chêng put cṳ̆ kìm;

the passions do not restrain themselves.

mih sṳ̄ bô̤ kìm bô̤ kĭ;

under no restraint in any way.

tīam-tīam kìm tŏ̤ pâng lăi;

kept constantly in the inner appartments, and not allowed to come out.

cía put kùe khṳ̀ cṳ-ce kìm-tīam cē;

this one merely goes to school that he may be kept quiet there.

ciu-jît kìm tŏ̤ cṳ-ce lăi, bô̤ i chut lâi;

shut him up all day in the school room, and would not let him out.

cìeⁿ-seⁿ khah kìm khùi, tîeh tháu i thong khì cē;

this is too close for breathing, there must be an aperture made for ventilation.

kím-cì suang-jíang;

forbid vociferation.

koi lîah khṳ̀ kìm;

catch the hens and shut them up.

lêng-ūaⁿ bói kâi koi-lam hó̤ kím koi;

buy another coop to keep the fowls in.

cío kìm tŏ̤ cío-lâng lăi;

the bird is confined in a cage.

i kâi tṳ kìm tŏ̤ tṳ-lô̤ tói;

her pigs are shut up in a pen.

kìm bô̤ nâng á cìa;

forbid the breaking off of the sugar canes; no trespass allowed on this cane patch.

kìm bô̤ nâng tiah kúe-cí;

prohibits the picking of this fruit.

• 噤kìm4003013
• Unable to speak, from lock-jaw or other disease.

kìm-kháu lĭ;

dysentery and difficulty in swallowing.

lĭ-cît sĭang-téng kĭ kìm-kháu, kìm kháu kâi cū o̤h ui;

the dysentery which is most to be dreaded is that in which there is difficulty in swallowing, as this kind is difficult to cure.

• 妗kĭm401384
• The wife of a mother's or wife's brother.

bó̤ kĭm;

mother's brother's wife.

chi kĭm;

wife's brother's wife.

lău kĭm;

great uncle's wife.