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Htb (cache) (1)

puar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

squash; gourd; describe person's belly is big

瓠瓜; 匏瓜; 形容人的肚子大

DFT (3)

Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøx zhaekoef./Bagciw hoe'hoef, puar khvoarzøex zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Bak'ciw hoef'hoef, puu'ar khvoax'zøx/zøex zhaix'koef.) 目睭花花，匏仔看做菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

揶揄人看錯東西 。

Laang na soef, zexng puar svef zhaekoef./Laang na soef, zexng puar svy zhaekoef. 🗣 (u: Laang na soef, zexng puu'ar svef/svy zhaix'koef.) 人若衰，種匏仔生菜瓜。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

比喻人的運氣不佳 ， 倒楣透頂 。

pu'ar/puar 🗣 (u: puu'ar) 匏仔 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

匏瓜 、 葫蘆 。 瓜果類 。 莖細長 ， 卷鬚會纏繞在其他物品之上 。 瓜果又粗又長 ， 剛長出來的時候會有細毛 ， 成熟後 ， 皮面光滑 。 可供食用和藥用 。 也可用來做為舀水的工具 ， 叫 「 匏桸 」 。

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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.