Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piaⁿ
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piaⁿ
[edit]- piaⁿ teng;
- soldiers.
- piaⁿ cìang;
- army leaders.
- khí piaⁿ;
- raise troops.
- thîo piaⁿ;
- to station troops.
- ceng piaⁿ;
- disciplined troops.
- hôk piaⁿ;
- troops in ambush.
- tăi piaⁿ;
- the main body of the army.
- bé-piaⁿ;
- cavalry.
- pō-piaⁿ;
- infantry.
- cìen piaⁿ;
- the engaged forces.
- kìu piaⁿ;
- a force sent to succor.
- tíam piaⁿ;
- to call the roll; mustering.
- chau-līen piaⁿ-bé;
- to exercise or drill troops; a disciplined force.
- piaⁿ sng;
- ice and frost.
- piaⁿ sng cúi;
- ice-water.
- cúi kit sêng piaⁿ;
- water freezes and forms ice.
- piaⁿ îeⁿ khṳ̀;
- the ice has melted.
- piaⁿ-thn̂g;
- rock candy.
- pŏ̤-hò̤ piaⁿ;
- crystallized peppermint essence.
- píaⁿ kuaⁿ;
- dry biscuits.
- guêh píaⁿ;
- cakes made at the full of the eighth moon and used in worshipping it.
- so-píaⁿ;
- crisp cakes.
- píaⁿ phûe, píaⁿ āⁿ;
- the pastry and the filling of a dumpling.
- gû-ni-píaⁿ;
- cheese.
- sie píaⁿ;
- to bake cakes.
- pūe píaⁿ;
- to bake cakes in a pan over the fire.
- píaⁿ teng sok húe;
- the third and fourth of the ten stems belong to fire.
- cŏ̤ jîm hìang píaⁿ;
- facing due south.
- pìaⁿ mīaⁿ cò̤;
- act without regard to his life.
- i pìaⁿ căi;
- he is very reckless.
- nŏ̤ úaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk úaⁿ;
- put what is in the two bowls into one.
- nŏ̤ saⁿ khí ùaⁿ-kĭaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk khí;
- reduce two or three cases at law to a single case.
- màiⁿ pìaⁿ sua-îa;
- do not spill it in turning it out.
- pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk ē;
- turn them all into one lot.
- sì pau, pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk pau;
- put the four bundles into one.
- sie pìaⁿ;
- join in one.
- pìaⁿ thóiⁿ tī-tîang méⁿ;
- see who will be quickest.
- thun-pìaⁿ;
- to swallow up; to devour.
- tōa hieⁿ thun-pìaⁿ síe hieⁿ, tōa kok thun-pìaⁿ síe kok;
- large towns swallow up small ones, and great nations swallow up lesser ones.
- jī ke sie thun-piaⁿ;
- the two devour each other.
- úa pîaⁿ lṳ́ thiaⁿ;
- I will narrate it to you as I heard it.
- jī mó̤ chîa, ūe mó̤ pîaⁿ;
- letters should not be rubbed out and written in again on the same paper, and words should not be repeated from hearsay.
- i cò̤-nî tàⁿ, lṳ́ pîaⁿ úa thiaⁿ;
- repeat his words to me as nearly as you can.
- cêk kù cêk kù pîaⁿ mēng-pêh;
- state it plainly word for word.
- cē píaⁿ cū bô̤ saⁿ sîaⁿ;
- in relating it he told less than three tenths of the story.