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HTB (cache) (1)

boaa [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

labour; toil; grind; toil; labor hard

磨; 勞

DFT (6)

🗣 boaa 🗣 (u: boaa) 磨^p [wt][mo] (h,u) [d#]

1. (V) to use whetstone or millstone etc to make it sharp and smooth; to sharpen; to hone 2. (V) to grind; to polish by grinding; to abrade 3. (V) to work hard; to toil; to endure; to steel oneself 4. (V) to grind inkstick against an inkstone with a small quantity of water, producing ink

用磨石等磨東西使其鋒利 、 光滑 。 研磨 。 操勞 、 磨練 。 加水磨擦使溶出 。

🗣 boakhvaf 🗣 (u: boaa'khvaf) 磨坩 [wt][mo] [d#]

研磨缽 。 用來將食材磨成漿的陶製大碗及杵 ， 碗中有細凹槽以增加研磨效果 。

🗣 boalien 🗣 (u: boaa'lien) 磨練 [wt][mo] [d#]

1. () (CE) to temper oneself; to steel oneself; self-discipline; endurance

磨練

🗣 cietboaa 🗣 (u: cied'boaa) 折磨 [wt][mo] [d#]

1. () (CE) to torment; to torture

折磨

🗣 thoaboaa 🗣 (u: thoaf'boaa) 拖磨 [wt][mo] [d#]

辛苦操勞 。

🗣 Zøx guu tiøh thoaf, zørlaang tiøh boaa./Zøex guu tiøh thoaf, zøealaang tiøh boaa. 🗣 (u: Zøx guu tiøh thoaf, zøx laang tiøh boaa. Zøx/Zøex guu tiøh thoaf, zøx/zøex'laang tiøh boaa.) 做牛著拖，做人著磨。 [wt][mo] [d#]

當牛就要拖犁 ， 當人就要承受磨難 。 比喻人生本來就要歷經許多勞苦與磨難 ， 就像牛得要辛苦犁田 、 拖車一樣 。

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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.