Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/peng

by Adele Marion Fielde

peng

• 秉péng6991153
• To hold in the hand; to uphold; to maintain; to have power.

sĭ i tó̤ péng khŵn;

it is he who holds the power.

péng kong phōiⁿ sṳ̄;

adjudicate matters in an equitable way.

• 駢péng6901876
• Union between things naturally separate.

péng cóiⁿ;

a double finger, two of the fingers grown together.

péng khî;

two teeth united so as to form one.

péng hîap;

ribs joined as to have no interstice between the two.

• 憑pêng7026112
• To trust to; confiding in; according to, as; proof, evidence; that which can be proven.

pêng tong bói-kàn móng nâng kâi châng;

depend on a middleman to buy a field from a certain man.

jĭm pêng i cò̤-nî īeⁿ;

in any way he pleases.

cía sĭ ŭ pêng ŭ kṳ̆ kâi;

this is something for which there is proof.

bô̤ pêng-kṳ̆;

without proof.

kháu sueh, bô̤ pêng;

words will not serve for proof.

cang sĭm-mûeh ûi pêng?;

What evidence is there for it?

cía sĭ pêng i tàⁿ kâi;

this verifies what he said.

pêng toaⁿ;

a receipt or order.

pêng-toaⁿ chú ngṳ̂n cêk choiⁿ níe;

the draft calls for a thousand taels.

• 並pĕng70017
• Two standing or going together; a dual arrangement; a copulative particle; altogether; both, with, and, also, moreover, unitedly, at once; used before a negative it enforces it.

pĕng bô̤ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

it is not so at all.

pĕng hut;

by no means.

pĕng hui ŭ ì;

quite unintentional.

nŏ̤ nâng pĕng cŏ̤;

both sat down.

pĕng m̄ sĭ;

not so at all.

pĕng ĭong, jîeh cōi cîⁿ?;

How much was it, including commission?