Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/mok

by Adele Marion Fielde

môk

• 莫môk6031407
• A negative forbidding an act; no need of; a particle exciting a doubt; if, unless, perhaps; preceding an objective it forms the superlative; nothing like; incomparable; an adjective of comparison.

môk-hui sĭ lṳ́!

It surely is not you!

môk jû i kâi hó̤;

nothing like so good as his is.

môk sueh sĭ cía kè-cîⁿ, cū sĭ cíe cē to m̄ bói;

to say nothing of its being such a price, even if it were less I would not buy it.

cía sǹg sĭ môk su ŭ kâi sṳ̄;

this is something which need not necessarily be.

môk-kùe i àiⁿ mēⁿ;

no blame to him should he scold about it.

môk kùai i tàⁿ;

no wonder he speaks of it.

pât nâng cò̤ kâi, môk jîak i;

what others make is not to be compared with his.

• 睦môk6081098
• Harmonious; amicable; to make or keep peace with; concord among relatives, neighbors, or nations.

hûa-môk hieⁿ-lîn;

a friendly community..

hiaⁿ tĭ hûa-môk lío;

the brothers are already reconciled to each other.

ang cía hûa-hûa môk-môk;

husband and wife are in complete concord.

líang ke put môk;

the two parties do not agree.

• 沐môk607854
• To wash, to bathe, to cleanse; to enrich by kindness; to receive favors.

saⁿ jît ău àiⁿ pài sîn cū tîeh soiⁿ ce-kài, môk îok;

in three days shall worship the gods, and must fast and wash the body beforehand.

môk kùe i kâi ṳn;

received favors from him.

• 寞môk6034011
• Silent; alone; isolated.

sok-môk căi;

very lonely.

ciu jît sok-sok môk-môk, bô̤ nâng cŏ̤ phûeh;

all alone all day, with no one to sit and chat with.

• 牧môk607984
• A shepherd; to care for cattle.

môk-sṳ;

a pastor; a common term for a foreign missionary.

môk-thông sĭ cíeⁿ gû kâi a-no̤ⁿ-kíaⁿ;

a shepherd lad is a child that watches cattle.