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  • máng1039647
  • To pull; to draw toward one; to tug at; to haul at.
máng i nā kò̤;
hold on to him and make him stay.
máng m̄ cŭ;
could not hold it by tugging at it.
máng lâi, léng khṳ̀;
pull and push.
máng i kâi piⁿ;
pulled his queue.
máng saⁿ kṳ;
holding on to the flap of her tunic.
máng kín-kín, bô̤ i khṳ̀;
held on tightly and would not let her go.
hăm kṳn máng khí lâi;
pulled it up roots and all.
máng i kâi thâu-mô̤ⁿ;
pulled her hair.
máng so̤h;
haul in a rope.
máng hûe-tńg;
turn around by pulling at.
máng tīo mô̤ⁿ;
pluck out the feathers.
  • mâng578613
  • Hurried; busy; distracted with care; fluttered.
sim màiⁿ mâng;
do not be fluttered.
cò̤ cìeⁿ mâng, àiⁿ khṳ̀ tī-kò̤?
Where are you going in such haste?
i cò̤-nî huang-huang mâng-mâng?
What is she bustling about so for?
huang-mâng khí-sin;
started off with great precipitation.
cē ŭ sṳ̄ tîeh mâng;
as soon as anything happens she is flurried.
lîeng mâng cū khṳ̀;
hurried off.
ēng i tó̤ pang mâng;
employs him to help in the press of business.
mâng-kip kâi sî-hāu;
when urgently pressed for time.
sim mâng, i lw̆n;
fluttered and confused.
mâng-mâng īa bô̤ khà khîeh mûeh;
in such a hurry that I did not stop to get my things.
  • mâng5781406
  • Vast and vague, like the expanse of the ocean.
mâng-mâng tōa hái, cn̂g kâi sĭ cúi;
as far as the eye could reach was one expanse of water.
thóiⁿ tîeh míoⁿ-míoⁿ mâng-mâng khṳ̀ tī kò̤ chūe?
Where could one go to look for it in the illimitable space?
sí lío míoⁿ-míoⁿ mâng-mâng, m̄ cai lêng-hûn ŭ tŏ̤ kò̤ a bô;
after death all is vague and obscure, and we do not know whether the soul exists or not.
mâng-sio;
crude salt-petre, sometimes mixed with nitrate of soda and alumina.
  • mâng57414219
  • Fierce; brutish; trusting to strength alone; unreasonable; beyond reproof.
áu-mâng;
fierce; dangerous.
i kò̤ kâi nâng mâng căi;
the people there are very barbarous.
sĭ mâng;
willful, passionate.
i kâi nâng īu tio īu mâng;
he is both passionate and unreasonable.
mâng hieⁿ;
uncivilized towns.
  • măng10451208
  • A net; a web; netting.
lāu măng kâi hṳ̂;
a fish that escaped the net.
thut lío lô̤-măng;
escaped from the snare.
pha
măng;
let down the net.
tieⁿ măng;
spread a net.
kit măng;
to make a net.
ti-tu kit măng;
the spider makes a web.
măng tîeh cêk búe tōa hṳ̂;
caught one large fish in the net.
cêk măng nĕ tĭⁿ-tĭⁿ, túi m̄ khí;
the net was very full, so that they could not draw it up.
cêk măng pha cĭn;
caught the net fall.
ēng mbang-phèⁿ lâi phèⁿ;
take a netted kerchief and gather them up in it.
măng tō̤;
a netted bag.
  • măng3611454
  • Long robes.
chēng khṳ̀, tn̂g-măng-măng;
dressed in a very long gown.
  • māng6103611
  • To dream; to see visions; dreams, of which diviners make six classes; a phantasm; obscure.
māng-kìⁿ;
dreamed.
māng to m̄ kàu;
I never dreamed of it.
māng lâi èng-ngīam;
the dream came to pass.
jît sĭeⁿ, mêⁿ māng;
think of it by day, and dream of it by night.
māng tĭo;
a prophetic dream.
cêk tîeⁿ tōa māng;
one long dream.
māng-mŭeⁿ kâi sṳ̄, m̄ hó̤ sìn;
it is a visionary scheme, do not place any confidence in it.
khui māng lō;
open the obscure road; cheer the spirit of the departed on its way to the other world.
chéⁿ khí lâi, ío sĭ māng;
I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
ak māng;
nightmare.
put sîang māng;
a bad dream.
māng tîeh kâi hó̤ māng;
had a pleasant dream.
nâng seⁿ jû māng;
life passes like a dream.
  • māng2471209
  • Slow; leisurely; tardy; late.
m̄ hó̤ māng;
it admits of no delay.
ĭen-māng kàu taⁿ;
delayed until now.
chî-māng nŏ̤ jît;
put it off two days.
māng-māng àiⁿ cò̤;
will do it after a while.
māng-māng kîaⁿ;
walk very slowly.
kîaⁿ māng cē, thāi úa;
walk rather slowly till I catch up with you.
jú māng jú hó̤;
the more slowly the better.
īa m̄-hó̤ khah māng;
neither should it be too late.
khuaⁿ māng to hó̤;
it is not pressing ; to do it leisurely will answer.


mauⁿ

  • mauⁿ663203
  • To wrap up; to bundle up.
i ùi huang, kâi thâu-khak mauⁿ kàu miⁿ-miⁿ;
she is afraid of the wind, and has wrapped her head up closely.
  • mâuⁿ580820
  • The covering of animals; the tare of goods.
mâuⁿ-pēⁿ; mâuⁿ-pĭn;
a flaw; a defect in an article; a failing; a queer way; an idiosyncrasy.
i kâi mâuⁿ-pēⁿ sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
that is what is the