Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/phun
phun
[edit]- phun cáu;
- scamper away.
- i khṳ̀ phun sng;
- he has gone home to bury a parent.
- phun-po̤ lâu-lok;
- toiling and moiling.
- to̤ phún tîeh i kâi koiⁿ-thâu;
- the knife cleft his shoulder.
- khṳt i cêk ē phún cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;
- it was cleft in two by him at one stroke.
- phùn cho̤h cúi lo̤h khṳ̀;
- dash some water on it.
- m̄ cai phùn cúi cū khah kang-ta;
- if you do not sprinkle it with water it will become too dry.
- phùn cêk sin cúi;
- spattered all over with water.
- phùn kàu cĕng-cĕng thô;
- spattered all over with mud.
- màiⁿ khṳt i phùn tîeh hueh;
- do not get spattered with the blood.
- mīn-phûn;
- a wash-basin.
- tâu-phûn;
- a porcelain dice-bowl.
- lîm phûn kâi sî-hāu câi-bó̤ ciaⁿ lâi;
- the midwife came just as the pains of travail began.
- phûn-mŏ̤ⁿ;
- graves.
- cêk kháu phûn;
- a grave.
- phûn tī;
- a burying ground.
- khṳ̀ phûn tèng pài;
- go to worship at the graves.
- phûn tîaⁿ;
- the flat area before a grave.
- phûn chíu;
- the projecting sides of a grave.
- phûn sin; phûn tu;
- the grave mound.
- phûn búe;
- the end of a grave opposite the stone.
- phûn thâu;
- that end of a grave at which the stone is placed.
- phûn bâi;
- the arch above the head-stone.
- phûn kâi ŵn bú;
- the horse-shoe shaped slope behind a grave.
- cĭeⁿ phûn kùe cúa;
- offer spirit-money at a grave.
- cì-sàu phûn-mŏ̤ⁿ;
- to perform the annual duties to a grave.
- ún cí kháu cò phûn ēng ŭ cí piⁿ kâi nâng tŏ̤ thóiⁿ-síu;
- this ancestral grave must be taken care of by those who live near here.
- cng phûn piⁿ jī;
- to color the letters on a gravestone.
- phûn-cǹg tŏ̤ tī kò̤?
- Where is the burial place?
- phûn piⁿ cîeh;
- the grave stone.
- cí kháu phûn sĭ ìm kâi;
- this grave has no body in it.
- cí kháu phûn kih ŭ kâi tûn;
- this grave has a terrace built up before it.
- thau líu phûn;
- a robber of graves.
- lṳ́ sĭ phûn kò̤ hùe!;
- You are a savage!
- khṳ̀ phûn tèng chūe!;
- Why go there to look for it!