Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lim

by Adele Marion Fielde

lim

• 臨lîm54013111
• Regarding or visiting an inferior; to look down on sympathizingly; to bless or curse by coming to; commencing, at the point of, about; during, whilst; time of meeting, and it thus sometimes makes the present participle; like; to imitate; the 19th diagram, meaning great.

kàng-lîm;

to descend, (as a god from the heavens to the earth).

khíong-ùi sĭ sîn-sien lîm hûam;

perhaps it is an angel come down among men.

lîm cong hun-hù;

when at the point of death gave these commands.

lîm sí, hôk seⁿ;

when at the point of death was resuscitated.

lîm khṳ̀ kâi sî-hāu kìa-hṳ̄ cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;

just as he was departing he entrusted this message to me.

lîm châi bó̤ kó-tit;

when getting rich, do not become unscrupulous.

lṳ́ thóiⁿ cía jī sĭ lîm sĭm-mîh thiap kâi?

What copy do you think has been followed in these letters?

i sía jī múi jît lîm thiap;

in writing he daily writes more like the copy.

lîm lāng bô̤ kó míen;

when entering upon difficulties do not inconsiderately avoid them.

i lîm cèng cōi, ŭ lwt-lêh;

he has great experience, having been near many diseased people.

hun-hù i mó̤ lîm sî gō sṳ̄;

charge him not to let the business fail of accomplishment through delay at the moment for action.

lîm-kip, sĭeⁿ bô̤ kòi;

so near it that I thought there was no help for it.

• 林lîm540754
• A forest, a wood, a grove, a clump of trees; a group or company.

chīu lîm;

groves, copses.

suaⁿ lîm;

wooded glens.

tek lîm;

a bamboo copse.

gṳ̄ lîm;

the imperial guard.

hâng-lîm;

the Imperial Academy.

tôk bâk put sêng lîm;

a single tree does not make a forest.

bûn-lîm;

the literary body.

chim lîm;

the depths of the forest.

• 滿lîm5758511
• Full to the brim; replete.

i cē íe cū íe kàu lîm-lîm;

when he does dip it up, he dips it full to the very brim.

chō̤ kàu nĕ lîm-lîm, mn̄g lṳ́ cò̤-nî khîeh?

If you fill it to the very brim, then bow will you manage to carry it?

m̄ tîeh màiⁿ chō̤ kàu khah lîm?

How is it that you know no better than to fill it too full?

• 簷lîm108611813
• The eaves.

lîm-cîⁿ;

the eaves of a roof.

khīa tŏ̤ lîm-cíⁿ ĕ;

standing under the eaves.

lîm-koi-cîeh;

the stone underneath the eaves, bordering the open court.

lîm-cíⁿ kha;

close to the eaves.

• 痳lîm5401048
• A disease of the bladder or ureter.

sua lîm;

gravel in the bladder.

cîeh lîm;

stone in the bladder.

hueh lîm;

bloody urine.

ko̤ lîm;

stringy or ropy urine.

pêh lîm;

white deposits in the urine.

jīe lîm;

strangury.

ngŏ lîm;

five sorts of urinary ailments.

• 霖lîm5401738
• A continuous rain of three days.

chiu thiⁿ-sî kâi kú hŏ, kìeⁿ-co̤ chiu-lîm;

the long rains of autumn are called the rainy season.

kam lîm;

a timely rain.

• 淋漓lîm-lî516
• The pattering of rain or hail.

tōa hŏ lîm-lî;

the rain pours steadily down.

sía kàu lîm-lîm-lî-lî;

writing steadily and rapidly, the letters dropping from his pen like falling rain.

• 掄lĭm565648
• To pick up or out; to take up.

lĭm khûn-thâu phah nâng;

lifted his fist and struck some one.

lĭm ki to̤ cū tok khṳ̀;

took his knife and chopped it off.

cŏ̤-ngŵn lĭm tieh chíu;

the senior-wrangler of the empire is held in a close grasp.

chíu tèng lĭm ki chieⁿ;

took a spear in his hand.

• 執lĭm67328
• To hold in the hand; to maintain hold.

bô̤ kò̤ hó̤ lĭm chíu;

there is no place where one can get a hold on it.

lĭm pit tîeh cò̤-nî lĭm cìaⁿ hó̤?

In holding the pen what is the correct manner of holding it?

lĭm hó̤-hó̤, màiⁿ ka-lâuh;

hold it carefully and don't drop it.

lĭm kín-kín;

grasp it firmly.

nŏ̤ ciah chíu lĭm m̄ bûa;

cannot reach around it with both hands.

nŏ̤ nâng sie lĭm chíu;

the two grasped each other's hands.