Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/thin

by Adele Marion Fielde

thin

• 謄thîn86514910
• To copy; to transcribe; to make an exact copy.

cí kò̤ kó̤ khîeh khṳ̀ thîn cheng;

take this draft and make an exact and fair copy.

cêng tĥin cin a būe?

Has a fac-simile been made yet?

cìeⁿ pôiⁿ thîn kùe hìeⁿ pôiⁿ;

transcribe what is on this side upon the other side.

lêng-gūa thîn cò̤ tōa kâi kâi;

rewrite it in larger characters.

• 陳thîn191708
• To state; to express carefully; to lay before an officer.

thîn i kâi chêng-cak chut lâi;

give a systematic statement of the circumstances.

nía-sṳ̄-kuaⁿ àiⁿ khṳ̀ tok-bú kò̤ kâi bûn-cṳ kìe-cò̤ sin-thîn;

dispatches sent from a consul to a governor or lieutenant-governor are thus called.

• 濾thîn5608515
• To pour off a liquid from sediment.

méⁿ-méⁿ khṳ̀ thîn pn̄g, ùaⁿ cē, ám cū thîn m̄ chut;

go at once and turn the water off the boiling rice, a little later there will be no water to turn off.

îeh pû hó̤ cū thîn chut lâi;

when the medicine has steeped sufficiently, drain it off from the dregs.

• 惹thīn293619
• To irritate; to provoke; to excite needlessly.

mó̤ thīn i;

you must not tease him,

cía sĭ thīn tîeh kâi hóⁿ-thâu-phang;

this is stirring up a hornet.