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Htb (cache) (6)

lauxlaang bak [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

old man's eye sight; eyes of the old; presbyopia

老花眼

lauxlaang-bagkviax [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

convex glasses for one suffering presbyopia

老花眼鏡

lauxlaang-bak [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

farsightedness

老花眼

lauxlaang-kviax [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

presbyopia eyeglasses

老人鏡; 老花眼鏡

lauxlaang-pvi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

old ailment

老人病

Serngtaxn-lauxlaang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Santa Claus

聖誕老人

DFT (7)

🗣 lauxlaang 🗣 (u: lau'laang) 老人 [wt][mo] [d#]

老年人 。

🗣 Lauxlaang m kofngkor, siaolieen m bad pør. 🗣 (u: Lau'laang m korng'kor, siaux'lieen m bad pør.) 老人毋講古，少年毋捌寶。 [wt][mo] [d#]

老年人不說故事 ， 年輕人得不到寶貴經驗 。 形容老年人有很多值得年輕人學習的經驗 。

🗣 Cit ee gyn'ar khaq lauxjiet svaf ee toaxlaang. 🗣 (u: Cit ee girn'ar khaq lau'jiet svaf ee toa'laang.) 一个囡仔較鬧熱三个大人。 [wt][mo] [d#]

一個小孩比三個大人在一起還熱鬧 。 小孩天真活潑 ， 不時活蹦亂跳 ， 大人也爭相哄他寵他 ， 往往會逗得大人們笑呵呵 。 所以家裡有小孩子 ， 氣氛會顯得熱鬧又活絡 。

🗣 lauxlangbak 🗣 (u: lau'laang'bak) 老人目 [wt][mo] [d#]

老花眼 。

🗣 lauxlangpafn 🗣 (u: lau'laang'pafn) 老人斑 [wt][mo] [d#]

老人家皮膚上所自然生出的班點 。

🗣 lauxtoaxlaang 🗣 (u: lau'toa'laang) 老大人 [wt][mo] [d#]

老人家 。 高齡的長者 。

🗣 Tarn mih øq kaux, tarn laang khoaix lau. 🗣 (u: Tarn mih øq kaux, tarn laang khoaix lau.) 等物僫到，等人快老。 [wt][mo] [d#]

等東西很難等到 ， 等人容易變老 。 比喻等待的時間很難熬 ； 或指等待的東西往往落空 。

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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.