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muilaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

marriage broker; matchmaker; go-between

媒人

DFT (6)

hmlaang/moelaang/muilaang 🗣 (u: moee/hmm'laang muii'laang) 媒人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

婚姻介紹人 。

moelaang-kofng/hmlaang-kofng/muilangkofng 🗣 (u: moee/hmm'laang-kofng muii'laang'kofng) 媒人公 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

專指男性的媒人 。

moelaang-lea/hmlaang-lea/muilanglea 🗣 (u: moee/hmm'laang-lea muii'laang'lea) 媒人禮 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

結婚的新人送給媒人的謝禮或是金錢 。

moelaang-pøo/hmlaang-pøo/muilangpøo 🗣 (u: moee/hmm'laang-pøo muii'laang'pøo) 媒人婆 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

媒婆 。 替人作媒的婦女 。

moelaang-zhuix/hmlaang-zhuix/muilangzhuix 🗣 (u: moee/hmm'laang-zhuix muii'laang'zhuix) 媒人喙 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

從媒人口中說出來的話 。 媒人為了撮合男女雙方的婚姻 ， 往往會刻意把彼此的優缺點加以誇張或隱瞞 ， 後來的人形容某人說話不老實 ， 就用 「 媒人喙 」 來做比喻 。

piexnmoelaang/piexnmuilaang 🗣 (u: pien'moee'laang pien'muii'laang) 便媒人 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

名義上的媒人 。 落花媒人 。 指現成的媒人 。

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External Dictionaries in Conventional Romanizations *

• (u) muii laang = mui5-lang5 [[DFT]] [[MK]] [[TC]] [[Lim19]] [[IT講]] [[CT]]

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.