Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pheng

by Adele Marion Fielde

pheng

• 烹pheng660867
• To boil; to decoct for food.

i mîaⁿ-ke pheng-thîo chài-bǔ;

she is skillful in concocting food.

i lâi chíaⁿ kâi thiap sĭ sía "pheng mêng hāu kà";

his card of invitation said, "the tea is made and we await your instructions."

pheng līen;

to seethe as glue; to decoct, as medicines.

• 拚pheng124645
• To reject; to lightly regard.

àiⁿ kio i pheng mīaⁿ;

will stake his life against hers.

i tîo mīaⁿ cū àiⁿ kio i pheng khṳ̀;

will risk her life in opposition to him.

• 聘phèng7021287
• To ask; to inquire; to send messengers to an equal to make inquiries; to invite or negotiate, with a present.

phèng chíaⁿ i lâi;

invite him to come.

phèng- chíaⁿ hîen-jîn;

engage a teacher.

úa àiⁿ phèng i lâi úa kò̤, phèng i m̄ khéng lâi;

I wished to get him to come to my house, but he would not come.

ka-kī chin-sin khṳ̀ phèng i saⁿ tńg cìaⁿ khéng lâi;

went myself and asked him three times before he would come.

• 評phêng7011495
• To discuss the merits of; to settle the order of; to arrange; to criticise a writing; to revise and edit; to deliberate and weigh.

phêng-lŭn cí kâi nâng;

discuss this person's characteristics.

cò̤-nî phōiⁿ-phêng?

What arrangement have you decided upon in regard to it?

lṳ́ phêng-thóiⁿ tī kâi hó̤;

consider which one is the best.

khṳt ŏi hùe phêng cē;

let those who are competent revise it.

pín phêng;

to estimate the merits of.

• 平phêng701512
• Even; equal; just; equable; common, ordinary; peaceful, undisturbed; to subdue, to tranquilize.

thiⁿ ĕ thài phêng;

the whole empire is tranquil.

cò̤ sṳ̄ kong-phêng;

act justly.

sim lăi hûa-phêng;

a mind at peace.

khîeh lô̤h thien-phêng khṳ̀ phêng ;

put it in the balances and weigh it.

phêng tī khí huang-po̤;

raise a needless disturbance.

phêng jît;

daily; commonly.

sĭ phêng-sieⁿ-nâng;

is a commoner.

phêng-sù;

heretofore; ordinarily.

phêng-sî;

hitherto.

phêng mîn;

the common people.

nía piaⁿ khṳ̀ phêng châk;

raise troops and quell the insurgents.

khṳ̀ kàu, châk cū phêng;

on arriving, the insurgents were pacified.

i phêng-pêh bô̤ kù mēⁿ úa ; he scolded me with- out the least reason, chng-kháu íⁿ-keng phêng-hôk lío;

the sore is already healed.

phêng-ang;

peace.

kau suaⁿ chú khut, phêng-îang chú tût;

in the high mountains choose a glen, in the open country choose an eminence.

i hàuⁿ thòi nâng ūi put phêng;

he likes to take the part of the injured.

seⁿ-phêng;

habitually.

thóiⁿ tîeh phêng-phêng, bô̤ khî;

it appears just as usual, there is nothing strange about it.

lō phêng;

the road is safe.

• 朋phêng661744
• A friend, a companion, a peer, an equal, one of the same views or school.

phêng-íu;

a male friend.

i kio úa sĭ phêng-íu;

he is my friend.

cí kâi sĭ tâng theng kâi phêng-íu;

these are fellow students who studied by the light from the same window.

ti kí kâi hó̤ phêng;

an intimate friend.

cai sim kâi phêng-íu ;

a companion who knows one's mind.

saⁿ phêng, sì íu;

a coterie of friends.

• 硼砂phêng-seⁿ661
• Natural borax, brought from Thibet.