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Htb (cache) (8)

bofngchi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

feed with feeling lost or disconcerted; temporary feed without hope

罔飼; 姑且養之

bofngchviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

temporarily

罔且; 姑且; 從權; 暫且

bofngkhix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not too bad; can get through

罔去; 姑且去

bofnglurn^† [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

just bear it as well as you can

罔忍; 姑且忍之

borng... [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

content oneself with coarse food; trivial work and valueless books

姑且; 將就

ciaxmchviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

temporary; provisional; for the time being

暫且; 姑且; 暫時

kochviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

for the time being; in the mean time; to let be

姑且

zhaepor-kyn borng ka kiaam [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

make do; put up with

菜脯根罔咬鹹; 姑且將就

DFT (5)

🗣 bofngchi 🗣 (u: borng'chi) 罔飼 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

姑且餵養 。 早期臺灣人因為重男輕女 ， 往往會把剛出生的女嬰取名為 「 罔市 」 或 「 罔腰 」， 與罔飼 、 罔育諧音 ， 表示並不歡迎這個嬰兒 ， 但是既然生下來了 ， 只好姑且將她養育長大 。 但有時候是因為擔心小孩身體虛弱 ， 便故意取個相反意味的小名 ， 以保佑小孩順利成長 。

🗣 borng 🗣 (u: borng) 罔^t [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adv) for the time being; tentatively; accepting reluctantly; put up with

姑且 、 將就 。

🗣 borng iøf 🗣 (u: borng iøf) 罔育 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

姑且餵養 。 早期臺灣人因為重男輕女 ， 往往會把剛出生的女嬰取名為 「 罔腰 」 或 「 罔市 」， 與罔育 、 罔飼諧音 ， 表示並不歡迎這個嬰兒 ， 但是既然生下來了 ， 只好姑且將她養育長大 。 但有時候是因為擔心小孩身體虛弱 ， 便故意取個相反意味的小名 ， 以保佑小孩順利成長 。

🗣 borng kviaa 🗣 (u: borng kviaa) 罔行 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

姑且走一走 。

🗣 ciaxmchviar 🗣 (u: ciam'chviar) 暫且 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

姑且 、 暫時 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

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

• 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), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• 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.