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Maryknoll (10)

bø [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bø; (bø'ar, ciøh'bø) ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

mill, millstone

磑,石磨

øebø [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ef'bø; øef'bø ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
turn a mill, as by hand
推磨

U cvii sae kuie ia e ebø. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: U cvii sae kuie ia e ef'bø. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
If you have money, you can even make devils turn a mill. Money talks.
有錢能使鬼推磨。

cvii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cvii ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

money, cash

錢

uxcvilaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: u'cvii'laang ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
wealthy man
有錢人

U cvii sae kuie ia e ebø. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: U cvii sae kuie ia e ef'bø. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Money talks. (Lit. If you have money, you can make a devil turn the mill for you.)
有錢能使鬼推磨。

cvii siekhaf, laang nng khaf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cvii six'khaf, laang nng khaf ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Don't run after it, you can't catch it. (Lit. Money has four legs to your two.)
錢四腳，人只有兩腳，賺錢不易。

Cidpaq lurn ciaq e tittiøh kimturn. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cit'paq lurn ciaq e tid'tiøh kym'turn. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

Forbear a hundred times, only then can you succeed

吃得苦中苦,方為人上人。

hoafnluxn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hoarn'luxn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

moist, damp

潮濕

Miqkvia na hoafnluxn ciu øe svekof kaq zhaophuo. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Mih'kvia na hoarn'luxn ciu e svef'kof kaq zhaux'phuo.; Mih'kvia na hoarn'luxn ciu øe svef/svy'kof kaq zhaux'phuo. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
If things are damp they will get so moldy they will begin to stink and turn green.
東西如果潮濕,就會長霉發味。

Embree (1)

u: e'turn ⬆︎ 下䃦 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.65]: N téng : lower millstone; 磨石(下)

Lim08 (1)

u: e'turn ⬆︎ 下䃦 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]][i#] [p.125] [p.125] [#FHL][#CT]: lower millstone; ( 1 ) 石磨e5下腳臼 ( khu7 ) 。 ( 2 ) （戲）指cha - bou2人。 <>

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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)
Maryknoll: 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)
Lim08: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten (TDJ)) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2008. We make updates and corrections, and refer to Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of TDJ) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019.
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.