Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phiaⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

phiaⁿ

• 拋phiaⁿ666644
• To fling or throw down with force.

i cē khì khîeh khí lâi cū phiaⁿ tīo;

when angry he took it up and flung it down and broke it.

phiaⁿ lôh khṳ̀̀ chap-chap-chùi;

dashed it down and broke it in little pieces.

phiaⁿ kàu hn̆g-hn̆g kò̤ khṳ̀;

flung it far away.

• 脅phiaⁿ1951306
• The flanks, the sides; the space below the arms.

phiaⁿ-lî kut;

ribs.

phiaⁿ nêk; tu kâi phîaⁿ nêk;

a side of pork.

phîaⁿ-lî thìaⁿ;

a pain in the side.

• 聘phìaⁿ7021287
• A dower; a portion; the betrothal presents.

phìaⁿ-kim jîeh cōi?;

How much is paid by the groom's father to the bride's parents?

ngí tīaⁿ, nô̤ kò̤ phìaⁿ;

it is fixed at twice ten taels.

sàng phìaⁿ a būe?;

Are the betrothal gifts presented yet?

bô̤ tham i kâi kāu phìaⁿ;

do not covet a large dower.

• 坪phîaⁿ701325
• A flat; a level area.

hái phîaⁿ;

flats, covered at high tide with salt water.

thūn hái phîaⁿ;

fill in the salt meadows; made land on the sea-shore.

suaⁿ phîaⁿ;

a plateau.

• 埤phîaⁿ680328
• A classifier of jobs.

phîaⁿ sṳ̄, lóng-cóng pàng úa sin tèng;

leave the whole affair to me.

cí cêk phîaⁿ lóng-cóng àiⁿ i lí, bô̤ kùe i kang-khó;

wants him to attend to the whole job, and has no regard to the hardship he undergoes.