頭家
See also: 头家
Chinese
head; (noun suffix) | home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools | ||
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trad. (頭家) | 頭 | 家 | |
simp. (头家) | 头 | 家 |
Pronunciation
Noun
頭家
- (chiefly Southern Min, Hakka) owner (of a shop etc., addressed by customers)
- (chiefly Southern Min, Hakka) boss (addressed by employees)
- (chiefly Southern Min, Hakka, dated in Leizhou Min) husband
- 二十三歲遇到阮頭家 二十八歲有子三個 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
- From: 2013, 蔡秋鳳 (Kerris Tsai) (lyricist 廖偉志), 命
- Lī-cha̍p-saⁿ hòe tú-tio̍h gún thâu-ke, lī-cha̍p-peh hòe ū kiáⁿ saⁿ ê [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
- When I was twenty-three, I met my husband; when I was twenty-eight, I had three sons.
二十三岁遇到阮头家 二十八岁有子三个 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
- (gambling) organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings
- (gambling, card games) banker of the first round
- (gambling, card games) first player
- (gambling, card games) preceding player
- organizer of a ceremony at a temple
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 老闆 (“boss; proprietor”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 丈夫 (“husband”) [map]
Descendants
References
- Myanmar-English Dictionary (1993, Myanmar Language Commission; republished 1996, Dunwoody Press)
Further reading
- “Entry #12096”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
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