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hm'afzhao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hmm'ar'zhao ⬆︎ [[...]]

gramineous plants (belonging to the grass family of plants. Imperata cylindrica)

茅草

hm'afkyn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hmm'ar'kyn ⬆︎ [[...]]

roots of the gramineous

茅草根

hmlaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hmm'laang; (muii'laang, moee'laang) ⬆︎ [[...]]

match maker

媒人

hmlangpøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hmm'laang'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]

professional female match maker (sometimes used with a slightly derogatory connotation)

媒婆

pøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]

old woman

婆

a'pøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: af'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
old woman
阿婆

cympøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cirm'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
wife of paternal grandfather's younger brother, grand aunt
嬸婆,叔祖母

hmlaang-pøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hmm'laang'pøo; hmm'laang-pøo; (moee'laang-pøo) ⬆︎ [[...]]
professional (female) match maker
媒婆

i'pøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ii'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
grandmother's sister, grand aunt
姨婆,姨祖母

kepøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kef'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
meddlesome, officious, meddler
好管閒事

kixmpøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kim'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
wife of grandmother's brother, grand aunt
舅祖母

ko'pøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kof'pøo ⬆︎ [[...]]
paternal grandfather's sister, grand aunt
姑婆,姑祖母

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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.