Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/maⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

maⁿ

• 媽maⁿ5723810
• A waiting woman.

kang-maⁿ;

a nurse, a maid-servant.

phûa maⁿ;

a duenna.

• 顢預maⁿ-hu575
• Careless; remiss; slovenly; negligent; perfunctory; cursory.

cò̤ sṳ̄ ma-hu;

does things in a very cursory way; slights his work.

i cò̤ sṳ̄ to sĭ ma-ma hu-hu;

whatever he does he produces very unsatisfactory results.

• 犘maⁿ5719311

maⁿ-gû;

the yak, an animal found in Thibet and Western China.

• 媽máⁿ5723810
• An old woman; a grandmother.

lăi máⁿ, gūa máⁿ;

paternal and maternal grandmothers.

lău máⁿ;

grandfather’s mother.

gūa lău máⁿ;

grandmother’s mother.

i kong máⁿ;

grandparents.

thài máⁿ;

venerable lady.

• 瑪瑙máⁿ-láu617
• A general name for veined stones, such as opal, cornelian, agate, onyx and jasper.

kim tah lío ēng maⁿ-láu gē lâi gē;

when you have overlaid it with gold-leaf, then take the smoothing stone and polish it.