Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/liam

by Adele Marion Fielde

liam

• 拈liam634645
• To take up in the fingers.

liam khau;

to draw lots.

liam hieⁿ;

to set incense sticks.

• 斂líam5346613
• To enshroud; in medicine, to neutralize, to repress.

jûah thiⁿ-sî kâi si méⁿ-méⁿ siu lîam bûa;

in hot weather a corpse must be quickly enshrouded.

tieⁿ líam;

to prepare a corpse for the coffin.

jîp líam;

to enshroud.

bī sng kâi, i kâi sèⁿ cū líam;

it is in the nature of what is acid to repress heat.

īa m̄ hó̤ cîah khah líam;

neither should one take too mach of what represses heat.

• 襝líam53514513
• To withdraw. The hands into the sleeve.

líam jîm pài;

I sleeve my hands, and pay my respects; (a phrase on a lady's card. The hands are put one above the other).

• 捻lìam633648
• To pinch; to pinch up or off

ĕ tng m̄ hó̤ lìam i;

do not pinch him again.

i lìam kàu i o-cheⁿ tah-tàng;

he pinched him till he was black and blue in spots.

i khṳ̀ lìam i kâi kih-kau sĭ thīn i sn̂g;

when she pinched his cheek it was merely in sport.

lìam kò̤ chòi lâi cò;

pinch off a piece of dough to make it with.

lìam m̄ khí;

cannot pinch it up.

lìam lío kâi cńg-thâu-ūi sûi-sî cū sio;

the marks made by pinching with the fingers immediately disappeared.

• 瓣lìam6529714
• The sections of an orange; the scales of an onion.

cí kâi kaⁿ lṳ́ thóiⁿ jîeh cōi lìam;

see how many carpels this orange has.

īu sĭ peh cêk lìam cêk lìam tó̤ bōi;

shaddocks are divided into carpels and thus sold.

sǹg-thâu cêk lìam cêk lìam peh tīo mô̤h;

pick the film off the garlic, scale by scale.

• 鐮lîam53416713
• A reaping hook; a bill hook.

lîam-to̤;

a sickle or bill hook.

khîa lîam-to̤ lâi kuah cháu;

take a reaping hook and cut the grass.

kau-lîam;

a pruning hook.

kau-lîam-chieⁿ hó̤ phùa lîen-lŵn-kah-bé;

a hooked spear is useful in breaking the ranks of armored horses chained together.

• 黏lîam6342025
• Viscid, sticky, glutinous, adhesive.

nĕ lîam-lîam;

very adhesive.

mâk lío chíu lîam-lîam;

got his hands all stuck up with it.

chíu jṳ́ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

daubed his hands with it till they were all stuck up as if with bird lime.

thóiⁿ tieh bô̤ ka-lîam;

it appears to have no adhesive quality.

i kâi ūe tàⁿ lâi bô̤ ka bô̤ lîam;

what he says has no coherence.

bô̤ íaⁿ bô̤ ciah kûi sṳ̄ khṳt i tàⁿ kàu ka-ka lîam-lîam;

things for which there is not a particle of evidence, are made to appear as facts by his well connected statements.

ciah lô̤h khṳ̂ bô̤ lîam bô̤ sìam;

it leaves no taste in the mouth after it is eaten.

tàⁿ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

stated very coherently.

i nŏ̤ nâng siang-hó̤ kàu lîam-nî-tha-thi;

the two are inseparable friends.

tîeh ēng sie cúi lâi sói cìaⁿ bŏi lîam;

must wash it with warm water, and then it will not be sticky.

• 簾lîam53411813
• A screen, of cloth, matting splints; curtains.

mn̂g lîam;

a splint door-screen.

pò lîam;

a curtain.

tek lîam;

a bamboo screen.

lîam kauh khí;

the screen is rolled up.

lîam pàng lô̤h lâi;

the screen is let down.

pàng lîam;

let down the screen.

kùa liam;

a hanging screen.

tìo lìam;

hang up a screen.

lîam lăi;

behind the screen; secluded; retired.

pak tīo lîam;

remove the screen.

cí pak lîam cò̤ jîeh cōi cîⁿ?

How much did the making of this screen cost?

hien lîam, jîp lâi;

turn aside the screen and enter.

kīe lîam;

the curtains of a sedan chair.

lāi lîam kuaⁿ;

deputies appointed by the chancellor to read the essays at an examination.

tìo lîam ãu hûe jīm;

after the examination they return to their posts.

câh-lîam;

a partitioning screen.

ûi-lîam;

an enclosing screen.

• 廉lîam5345310
• Moderate; economical, frugal; disinterested ; pure.

lîam-chí;

decency, modesty.

ŭ-lîam-chí kâi nâng;

a modest person.

hṳ́ kâi nâng bô̤ lîam-chí;

that person is brazen.

bô̤ lîam bô̤ chí;

indecent.

i to m̄ pat lîam-chí;

he has no sense of decency.

i ío kù lîam-chí;

he is regardful of decency.

íang lîam ngṳ̂n;

an anti-extortion allowance, a legal addition to the salary of officials.

cí kâi khueh toaⁿ-toaⁿ khàu-cŭ íang-lîam tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;

in this post one depends solely upon the anti-extortion allowance.

kuaⁿ-liú lîam-mêng;

magistrates that are incorruptible.

cí kâi kuaⁿ cheng-lîam căi;

this magistrate judges equitably.

kè-lîam, kang sé;

costs lessened, and work saved.

lîam-lîam nē;

very economical.

kè-cîⁿ thó̤ khṳ̀ lîam căi;

the price that he asks is very moderate.

i ŏi lîam-khĭam khak-khó;

he is frugal and persevering.

• 髭lîam10291904
• Beard on the upper lip.

i kâi chiu m̄ kùe lîam;

his beard does not cross his upper lip.

lṳ́ kâi chiu lâu khí lâi, ŏi kùe lîam;

if you let your beard grow, you will have a moustache.

chiu cē m̄ kùe lîam thóiⁿ tîeh ía īeⁿ;

if the moustache does not extend across the lip it makes one look ferocious.

• 臁lìam53413013
• The shin.

kha-lîam-kut;

the shin bone.

i seⁿ kha-lîam chṳ;

he has sore shins.

kûeh tîeh kha-lîam;

abraded the shin.

pang-kha-lîam;

a sloughing of the shin.

• 奩lîam5333711
• A lady's dressing case.

cng-lîam;

a bride's trousseau.

• 𩼖lîam53419513

lîam hṳ̂;

a species of mud-fish, of a dull green color and with stout jagged spines.

lîam hṳ̂, thâu tōa-tōa bih-bih;

the head of the mud-fish is large and flat.

• 念lĭam635614
• To reflect on, to ponder over, to remember and consider, to regard.

kìⁿ-lĭam tîeh lṳ́;

holds you in kind remembrance.

lĭam-lĭam, put bûang;

keep in mind, and not forget.

jît mêⁿ sṳ-lĭam tîeh i;

think of her day and night.

lĭam tîeh i kâi ṳn;

recall her kindness to me.

sái i cô̤h-tn̆g lĭam-thâu;

send him to check the first thought of it.

lĭam-kîp ke-hieⁿ;

think fondly of one's native place.

úa khùa lĭam tîeh i;

I am anxiously thinking of him.

mih sṳ̄ to sìo-lĭam tîeh i;

everything calls her to mind.

i ŭ sìo-lĭam tîeh mē?

Does he recollect us?

• 斂lĭam5346613
• To enshroud.

tieⁿ lĭam;

winding-sheet.

siu lĭam;

to wrap in a winding-sheet.

• 念līam635614
• To recite from memory; to learn by heart; to chant or drone.

līam cṳ;

repeat passages from books.

lṳ́ līam úa thiaⁿ;

you recite it to me.

līam keng;

chant Buddhist chants.

līam hût;

repeat the name of Buddh.

līam sì kù;

recite verses.

līam kua, līam khek;

to drone out songs and ballads.

līam sêk-sêk;

memorize it perfectly.

thâk kàu pat līam;

read it till you know it well enough to repeat it from memory.

úa cêk sî līam m̄ chut;

I cannot just at this moment repeat it.

• 稜līam5061158
• An angle, a corner.

saⁿ līam pô̤;

a weapon with a triangular blade; a three-cornered iron club.

àiⁿ cò̤ kúi līam kâi?

How many angles will you have made in it?