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Htb (cache) (5)

ciøf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

invite; pepper; the banana; banana; plantain

招; 椒; 蕉

ciøf kviafsaix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

to accept or rather adopt a son-in-law who would live in the wife's home and assume the role of a son

招子婿

ciøf pøfhiarm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

canvass for insurance

招保險; 拉保險

ciøf-høe'ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

gather members to form a private mutual lending association

招會仔

ciøf`laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

marry with a woman and live with her family

招人; 給人招贅

DFT (6)

ciøf 🗣 (u: ciøf) 招^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) beckon with hand; to summon; to invite 2. (V) to have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage (husband adopts family name) 3. (V) to bring about chance or opportunity to bear a child

以手相招 、 邀請 。 招贅 。 帶來生小孩的機運 。

ciøf-høe'ar 🗣 (u: ciøf-høe'ar) 招會仔 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

會首邀約組成互助會 。

ciøf-kviafsaix 🗣 (u: ciøf-kviar'saix) 招囝婿 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

招女婿 。 為女兒招贅或招人為婿 。

Siunoa siulixli, menii ciøf siøfti. 🗣 (u: Siw'noa siw'li'li, mee'nii ciøf siør'ti.) 收瀾收離離，明年招小弟。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

收口水收得乾淨一點 ， 明年才可以招來一個小弟弟 。 此為收口水時的吉祥話 。

ciøf 🗣 (u: ciøf) 椒^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

ciøf 🗣 (u: ciøf) 蕉^p [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

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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.