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Htb (cache) (8)

ciet'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to be subservient

折腰

hang'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

subjugate evil spirits

降妖

iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

hungry; hunger

餓; 飢; 妖

jin'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

freak; a person showing abnormal sex characteristics; a person fond of fancy dress and excessive make-up; a queer

人妖

khao'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

cry for hunger (e.g. a starving child); Shut up!

哭肚子餓; 別吵！

paktor iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

empty stomach; hungry; get hungry

肚子餓

siu'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

control evil

收妖

zai'iaw [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

felt hungry

知飢

DFT (9)

🗣 Ciaqpar voa iaw. 🗣 (u: Ciah'par voa iaw.) 食飽換枵。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

先吃飽再把肚子搞餓 。 形容人徒勞無功 ， 做沒有實質好處的事情 ； 或用來謙稱自己所為只是消磨時間 ， 微不足道 。 引申為不該做的事卻去做 、 不該管的事卻去管 ， 諷人自找麻煩 ， 吃飽撐著沒事幹 。

🗣 erng'iaw 🗣 (u: exng'iaw) 應邀 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

1. () (CE) at sb's invitation; on invitation

應邀

🗣 iaw 🗣 (u: iaw) 要 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 iaw 🗣 (u: iaw) 枵 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to be hungry

餓 。

🗣 iaw 🗣 (u: iaw) 腰^b [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 iaw 🗣 (u: iaw) 妖 [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (N) monster in folklore, strange, abnormal, can inflict harm, usually have magic, can make all kinds of transformations. goblin; witch; devil; monster; phantom; demon

傳說中奇怪反常而能害人的怪物 ， 多具有法術 ， 能作各種變化 。

🗣 iaw 🗣 (u: iaw) 邀^b [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

🗣 paktor iaw 🗣 (u: pag'tor iaw) 腹肚枵 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

肚子餓 。

🗣 Zhuix par bagciw iaw. 🗣 (u: Zhuix par bak'ciw iaw.) 喙飽目睭枵。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

已經吃得很飽了 ， 但眼睛還是盯著餐桌上的美饌佳餚不放 ， 一直想繼續再吃 。 比喻為一個人貪得無厭 。

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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.