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ALPHABETIC DICTIONARY
OF THE
FOOCHOW DIALECT.
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(1) A.  鴉鵶Ya. u a, or [2] ló a, (coll. lo wa), a crow, a raven; coll., [3]a pʻiéng opium; [4]a pʻiéng hong, opium as prepared for smoking; [5]a pʻiéng kwang, an opium shop; [6]a pʻiéng  tʻu, crude opium, opium in balls; [7]a pʻiéng ngiéng confirmed in the habit of smoking opium; [8]a pʻieng sai, dregs of opium, as adhering to the pipe in smoking.
丫Ya. a kʻwang, a slave-girl, a maid-servant; coll. [10]a tʻau, a female slave; [11]a tʻau kiăng, a slave girl.
阿A. O. ó; used for the coll. a, as in [12]a chi, a cicada, a locust; [13]a pang, to chaffer, to haggle; [14]a pang hu, or a
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pang kʻa, a chafferer, a skin flint, a mean fellow.
A.a cha, used for la cha, dirty, foul, vile.
吓 chiong wang a mó, is it so or not? also euphonic and emphatic, as in [15]se a, yes, it is, right.
亞Ya.  a, not inferior; com., [17]a kʻwí, the second class of Küjin literary graduates, comprising from the sixth to the twelfth, as their names stand on the official list; [18]a seng a secondary sage, as Mencius; [19]a maing another designation for Mencius.
啞瘂Ya. a kʻeu, dumb, a
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