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Bøo hii, hee ma hør. 🗣 (u: Bøo hii, hee ma hør.) 無魚，蝦嘛好。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻退而求其次 。

Hiekoarn pvy ee ti'bør, bøe puun siaw ma øe phahpheg./Hiekoarn pvy ee ti'buo, bøe puun siaw ma øe phahpheg. 🗣 (u: Hix'koarn pvy ee ty'bør/buo, bøe puun siaw ma øe phaq'pheg.) 戲館邊的豬母，袂歕簫嘛會拍拍。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

母豬靠近戲館旁邊 ， 久了不會吹簫 ， 也會打拍子 。 比喻人易受周圍環境影響 。

ma 🗣 (u: ma) 嘛^t [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adv) also

也 。

ma bøeq/maxboeq 🗣 (u: ma bøeq ma'boeq) 嘛欲 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

也要 。

ma si 🗣 (u: ma si) 嘛是 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

也是 。

Mngmng'ar ho løqkuo, thoo ma øe taam. 🗣 (u: Mngg'mngg'ar ho løh'kuo, thoo ma øe taam.) 毛毛仔雨落久，塗嘛會澹。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻積少成多 、 滴水穿石 。

Zhaothauar ma øe zøx hongtex, zøx zofngthorng lie ma u ki'hoe./Zhaothauar ma øe zøex hongtex, zøex zofngthorng lie ma u ki'hoe. 🗣 (u: Zhaux'thaau'ar ma øe zøx/zøex hoong'tex, zøx/zøex zorng'thorng lie ma u ky'hoe.) 臭頭仔嘛會做皇帝，做總統你嘛有機會。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

英雄不怕出身低 ， 只要肯奮鬥 ， 都可能有出頭天的機會 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), and Maryknoll (2001).

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.