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svekviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

men and animals give birth to offspring

生子

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Svekviar sai'ar, chi kviar sai'hu./Svikviar sai'ar, chi kviar sai'hu. 🗣 (u: Svef/Svy'kviar say'ar, chi kviar say'hu.) 生囝師仔，飼囝師傅。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生孩子是學徒 ， 養育孩子是師傅 。 比喻生小孩瓜熟蒂落算不上本事 ， 要把孩子養育成有用的人才是真本領 。

svikviar/svekviar 🗣 (u: svef/svy'kviar) 生囝 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

生產 、 分娩 。 生孩子 ， 母體產出嬰兒的動作或過程 。

Korng cit ee viar, svef cit ee kviar./Korng cit ee viar, svy cit ee kviar. 🗣 (u: Korng cit ee viar, svef/svy cit ee kviar.) 講一个影，生一个囝。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

說一個影子 ， 生一個孩子 。 意即有人說看到一個影子 ， 就有人傳話說成有人生了一個孩子 。 比喻把沒聽清楚的話 ， 轉述成毫不相關的事 。

Øe svef tid kviar syn, bøe svef tid kviar sym./Øe svy tid kviar syn, bøe svy tid kviar sym. 🗣 (u: Øe svef/svy tid kviar syn, bøe svef/svy tid kviar sym.) 會生得囝身，袂生得囝心。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

能夠生出孩子的身體 ， 卻不能生出孩子的心思 。 意為雖然兒女是父母所生 ， 但也有自己的意志 ， 父母不能任意左右 ； 或指教育孩子很不容易 ， 往往不能按照父母的期待 。

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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.