Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/miaⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

miaⁿ

• 名mîaⁿ600303
• A name, that which designates a person or thing; the given name of people, as distinguished from the clan name, and from the style or title; a person; fame; reputation; a title; credit; merit; renowned; celebrated; well known; nominal; to name, to designate.

cin mîaⁿ, sîⁿ jī;

the true name.

khîn mîaⁿ;

peck fame.

cìaⁿ mîaⁿ;

correct name.

mîaⁿ-siaⁿ; mîaⁿ-sek;

fame, reputation.

tōa mîaⁿ-siaⁿ kâi nâng; ŭ mîaⁿ ŭ siaⁿ kâi nâng;

a person of reputation.

cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ ŭ sĭm-mih mîaⁿ mâk a būe?

Is there any fixed or technical name by which such things are designated?

mîaⁿ hō̤, mîaⁿ jī;

a name, style or appellation taken by a person, firm or company.

mîaⁿ ke;

a reputable family.

lṳ́ kìe cò sĭm-mih mîaⁿ?

What is your name?

mîaⁿ sèⁿ;

name and surname.

jú mîaⁿ, cṳ mîaⁿ, kuaⁿ mîaⁿ, thó mîaⁿ;

the infantile, school, official, and common or local names of a person.

pîet mîaⁿ;

another or second name.

nêk mîaⁿ;

anonymous.

măuⁿ mîaⁿ;

take a false name.

tíam mîaⁿ;

to mark off names; to call a roll.

• 命mīaⁿ601305
• Fate, destiny, luck; one’s appointed lot; the limit of the life of beings; animated; living creatures.

cîah tn̂g mīaⁿ;

live a long life.

cí-kâi hó̤ mīaⁿ, hṳ́-kâi khó mīaⁿ;

the one has a happy lot, and the other a hard one.

sǹg mīaⁿ;

calculate fates.

lŭn mīaⁿ;

discourse upon luck.

tōa mīaⁿ, ùi a m̄-ùi?

Do you fear death or not?

i kâi sèⁿ-mīaⁿ tŏ̤ úa chíu;

his life is in my hand.

bô̤ sin ke, īa ŭ sèⁿ-mīaⁿ;

those who have nothing else, have hfe.

sieh kùe mīaⁿ-mêh;

loves it more than life.

tăng kùe mīaⁿ-ùaⁿ;

it is a case of life and death.

mīaⁿ-mn̂g;

the gate of life, the medical term for the right kidney, or a supposed passage between the rectum and bladder.

sîeⁿ mīaⁿ;

make reparation for life taken.

phah sí nâng, mín sîeⁿ mīaⁿ;

if you kill a man, you cannot avoid paying for his life.

i ka-kī ẁn i pô̤h mīaⁿ;

he himself complained of his hard fate.

màiⁿ to̤ suah seⁿ-mīaⁿ;

do not kill living creatures.

mīaⁿ-ūn;

one’s horoscope.

hāi i sàng sèⁿ-mīaⁿ;

caused him to lose his life.

hāi mīaⁿ;

destroy life.

kim ku hāi mīaⁿ;

the tortoise that laid golden eggs, cost its owner his life.