Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lu

by Adele Marion Fielde

lu

• 墩lu9273212
• A hummock; a knoll.

sua lu;

sandy knolls.

cêk lu cêk lu;

in hummocks.

• 掙lu30648
• To strike horizontally with the fists; to pommel.

khṳt i lu tîeh phiaⁿ-lî;

was hit in the ribs by him.

lu kàu phiaⁿ-lî céng;

pommelled him till his sides were swollen.

• 鹵lú5561970

lú-máng;

rash; flippant; heedless in act or speech; abrupt and careless.

i cò̤ sṳ̄ lú-máng;

he acts rashly.

i to sĭ lú-lú máng-máng, thèng cò̤;

he is very inconsiderate, and does things at haphazard.

• 屢lu5594411
• Reiterated; repeatedly; often; over and over; again and again.

úa lú-lú kio i tàⁿ;

I have told him repeatedly.

i lú-chṳ̀ to bô̤ thiaⁿ úa;

he has many times disobeyed me.

lú chì, lú hāu;

as often as you try it you will find it serviceable.

lú cìen lú sèng;

as often as you fight you will gain a victory.

• 魯lú5561954
• Stupid; not intelligent.

i kâi châi-cieh lú-tŭn;

his faculties are dull.

i sĭ chong-mêng, i sĭ lú-tŭn;

the one is quick to understand and the other is slow of apprehension.

cò̤ sṳ̄ cho-lú, m̄ bûn-ngía;

does things in a boorish way, not as a cultured person would do them.

• 擄lû5576413
• To take captive; to carry away as a prisoner; to enslave; to kidnap.

lû-lîah;

seize as a prisoner.

kò̤ i chíeⁿ-lû;

enter complaint against him for kidnaping.

lû-kìm nâng lío, táng nâng khṳ̀ chíu-sôk;

keep a person in captivity, expecting some one to go and ransom him.

lâm hŭ láu ìuⁿ khṳt i lû kúi câp nâng khṳ̀;

of the old and young of both sexes, some tens of persons in all were taken away captive by them.

• 臚lû55513016
• To state; to convey orders; to transmit; to arrange in order; to spread out.

hong-lû-jī kheng;

the President of the Court of Ceremonies.

lû-lîet kàu mêng-pêh;

set forth clearly.

tíam tîeh thŵn-lû;

mark off the transmitted orders.

• 盧lû5585316
• A booth; a hut; a thatched hovel.

cháu lû;

a straw hut.

cho̤ chut mâuⁿ lû;

his first departure from his attap hut.

mō̤ⁿ lû;

a booth beside a grave.

• 蘆lû55514016
• Water-rushes; hollow stemmed grasses.

lû-tîah;

bulrushes.

lû-kùai;

hellebore.

lû-ûi;

rushes.

• 顱lû55618116
• The skull of a man.

sieⁿ tîeh thâu-lû;

wounded his head.

• 路lŭ5571576
• In mechanics, a space, an extension; a way or opportunity of action.

cn̂g kâi bô̤ mn̂g bô̤ lŭ;

wholly unable to find an opportunity for action; out of work; hedged in.

cò̤ lâi m̄ cheng-chó̤, bô̤ mīn bô̤ lŭ;

it is not a finished piece of work, there is nothing to distinguish the back from the front.

• 賂lŭ5571546
• To bribe; to give a present for the purpose of obtaining help.

ĭu-lŭ;

a bribe.

i àm-cèⁿ khṳ̀ lŭ i kâi cîⁿ;

the money that he secretly went and bribed him with.

sai-ĕ sĭu nâng kâi lŭ;

privately receive a bribe from someone.

lŭ i kàu cêk bw̄n ngṳ̂n i cū hàuⁿ;

if you make him a present of ten thousand dollars he will acquiesce in the arrangement.

• 錞lŭ9251678
• The metal butt of a spear or knife.

to̤ pèⁿ hṳ́ tńg kâi lŭ àiⁿ ēng thih kâi a sĭ àiⁿ ēng tâng kâi?

Do you want the ring which encircles the handle of the knife to be of iron or of brass?

lŭ cū sĭ câh-kháu;

the butt is the metal ring which holds the wooden handle to the steel.