Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

piⁿ

• 鞭piⁿ6871779
• A whip; a lash; to lash.

bé-piⁿ;

a horsewhip.

i pun i piⁿ-phah cèk peh ē;

he received a hundred lashes from him.

phûe piⁿ;

a leathern whip.

sái sang piⁿ;

wield a pair of bludgeons.

• 邊piⁿ68616215
• On the border or side; the margin.

lâi cŏ̤ pàng úa sin-piⁿ;

come and sit beside me.

châng piⁿ châng, chù piⁿ chù;

their fields and houses adjoin.

cêk piⁿ co̤h chîeⁿ nŏ̤ piⁿ kng;

the party who builds the partition wall, makes both sides of it smooth.

i cò̤-nî jĭm hàm m̄ bûa piⁿ?;

Why does he not come when he is called?

tŏ̤ hìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

on the other side.

kàu cìeⁿ pôiⁿ piⁿ;

has reached this side.

hue piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

the milled dollar.

hût piⁿ ngṳ̂n;

dollars having a head on one side.

tói piⁿ;

the inner face.

gūa piⁿ;

the outer face.

i chùi piⁿ seⁿ lîap kì;

he has a mole on the side of his mouth.

cí kâi sĭ i sin-piⁿ kâi nâng;

this is his companion or concubine.

• 辮piⁿ68912014
• The queue.

pĭⁿ piⁿ;

plait the queue.

i kâi piⁿ ŭ ciap cáng a bô̤?;

Does he wear false hair in his queue?

i cang piⁿ hiuh i;

he struck her with his queue.

cáng i kâi piⁿ;

clutched his queue.

cêk nâng túi piⁿ, cêk nâng peⁿ kha;

one dragged him by the queue

and the other by his feet.

pĭⁿ nŏ̤ kí píⁿ-kíaⁿ;

braid two little queues.

piⁿ jṳ̂ căi;

his queue in unkempt.

khŵn piⁿ;

wind the queue around the head.

piⁿ tá cò̤ cang-kíaⁿ-lô̤;

coil up the queue in a knot at the back of the head.

siu piⁿ;

comb the queue.

lâu piⁿ;

let the hair grow out to form a queue.

i thì tīo piⁿ khṳ̤̀ cò̤ hûe-sīeⁿ;

he shaved off his queue and became a priest.

piⁿ búe so̤h;

the silk braided into the queue.

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• Flat; thin.

cêk kò̤ cîeh píⁿ-píⁿ;

a thin slab of stone.

i kâi mīn seⁿ lâi pô̤h-píⁿ;

her face is very thin.

teh kàu nĕ píⁿ-píⁿ;

pressed down very flat.

iⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ îⁿ, píⁿ m̄ cîaⁿ píⁿ;

it is all out of shape.

i kâi chài-pó tâh kàu píⁿ-píⁿ;

his dried turnips are trampled down flat.

• 變pìⁿ68914916
• To transform; to change; a mutation from one state of being to another or to the original condition.

pìⁿ mīn;

to change countenance.

i ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ nâng;

it is metamorphosed into a human being.

i ŏi kōi pìⁿ a bŏi?;

Is it apt to change?

cong-kú bŏi pìⁿ;

never changes.

pìⁿ cò̤ kúi;

turns into a demon.

i bô̤ tau bô̤ tah, cū pìⁿ mīn pìⁿ súi;

he changes countenance when there is not the least occasion for it.

i hŵn lío pìⁿ būe chŵn;

its transformation is not yet complete.

jĭm sói bŏi pìⁿ sek;

will endure washing without changing its color.

cṳ-nîe-kíaⁿ câp-poih pìⁿ;

a young girl goes through many transformations.

i cí ău pìⁿ kàu hó̤ căi;

he is lately much changed for the better.

ŭ khi sua-hṳ̂ ŏi pìⁿ cò̤ hóⁿ;

there is a species of shark that changes into a tiger.

• 辮piⁿ68912014
• To braid; to plait; braid.

pĭⁿ cò̤ cêk tio so̤h;

plait it and make a rope of it.

pĭⁿ piⁿ;

braid the queue.

phah pĭⁿ;

make braids.

hue pĭⁿ;

flowered braid.

kim pĭⁿ;

gold braid.

pĭⁿ àiⁿ pĭⁿ kín a pĭⁿ khùaⁿ?;

Do you wish to have the braid plaited tightly or loosely?

• 辯piⁿ68814914
• To dispute; to argue; to wrangle for a notion.

póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

to argue the point; to force a construction; to dispute a proposition.

i m̄ khéng sù-hôk, cong-kú tó̤ póiⁿ-pĭⁿ;

he is unwilling to submit, and is forever arguing the point.

mih hō̤ ūe i to póiⁿ-pĭⁿ ŭ lâi;

he will take the contrary side in whatever one advocates.