Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/piaⁿ

by Adele Marion Fielde

piaⁿ

• 兵piaⁿ698125
• A soldier; troops; a force; an army; military; warlike.

piaⁿ teng;

soldiers.

piaⁿ cìang;

army leaders.

khí piaⁿ;

raise troops.

thîo piaⁿ;

to station troops.

ceng piaⁿ;

disciplined troops.

hôk piaⁿ;

troops in ambush.

tăi piaⁿ;

the main body of the army.

bé-piaⁿ;

cavalry.

pō-piaⁿ;

infantry.

cìen piaⁿ;

the engaged forces.

kìu piaⁿ;

a force sent to succor.

tíam piaⁿ;

to call the roll; mustering.

chau-līen piaⁿ-bé;

to exercise or drill troops; a disciplined force.

• 冰piaⁿ698851
• Ice; icy; crystallized.

piaⁿ sng;

ice and frost.

piaⁿ sng cúi;

ice-water.

cúi kit sêng piaⁿ;

water freezes and forms ice.

piaⁿ îeⁿ khṳ̀;

the ice has melted.

piaⁿ-thn̂g;

rock candy.

pŏ̤-hò̤ piaⁿ;

crystallized peppermint essence.

• 餅píaⁿ6991846
• Cake; biscuit; dumplings.

píaⁿ kuaⁿ;

dry biscuits.

guêh píaⁿ;

cakes made at the full of the eighth moon and used in worshipping it.

so-píaⁿ;

crisp cakes.

píaⁿ phûe, píaⁿ āⁿ;

the pastry and the filling of a dumpling.

gû-ni-píaⁿ;

cheese.

sie píaⁿ;

to bake cakes.

pūe píaⁿ;

to bake cakes in a pan over the fire.

• 丙píaⁿ69914
• The third of the ten stems.

píaⁿ teng sok húe;

the third and fourth of the ten stems belong to fire.

cŏ̤ jîm hìang píaⁿ;

facing due south.

• 併pìaⁿ70098
• To reduce to uniformity; to expose; to endanger; to pour together.

pìaⁿ mīaⁿ cò̤;

act without regard to his life.

i pìaⁿ căi;

he is very reckless.

nŏ̤ úaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk úaⁿ;

put what is in the two bowls into one.

nŏ̤ saⁿ khí ùaⁿ-kĭaⁿ pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk khí;

reduce two or three cases at law to a single case.

màiⁿ pìaⁿ sua-îa;

do not spill it in turning it out.

pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk ē;

turn them all into one lot.

sì pau, pìaⁿ cò̤ cêk pau;

put the four bundles into one.

sie pìaⁿ;

join in one.

pìaⁿ thóiⁿ tī-tîang méⁿ;

see who will be quickest.

• 並pìaⁿ70017

thun-pìaⁿ;

to swallow up; to devour.

tōa hieⁿ thun-pìaⁿ síe hieⁿ, tōa kok thun-pìaⁿ síe kok;

large towns swallow up small ones, and great nations swallow up lesser ones.

jī ke sie thun-piaⁿ;

the two devour each other.

• 述pîaⁿ7791625
• To repeat what one has heard.

úa pîaⁿ lṳ́ thiaⁿ;

I will narrate it to you as I heard it.

jī mó̤ chîa, ūe mó̤ pîaⁿ;

letters should not be rubbed out and written in again on the same paper, and words should not be repeated from hearsay.

i cò̤-nî tàⁿ, lṳ́ pîaⁿ úa thiaⁿ;

repeat his words to me as nearly as you can.

cêk kù cêk kù pîaⁿ mēng-pêh;

state it plainly word for word.

cē píaⁿ cū bô̤ saⁿ sîaⁿ;

in relating it he told less than three tenths of the story.