# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/am
### am

* 庵am621408
* A religious house; a Buddhist temple.

#### am-tn̂g;

    a convent or monastery.

#### am-kẁn; am-īⁿ;

    monastic estalishments.

#### nî-ko am;

    a nunnery.

#### hûe-sīeⁿ am;

    a monastery.

#### jîp am;

    to become a monk or a nun.

#### cháu am;

    our wretched hermitage.

#### am lăi;

    in religious ​retirement.

#### hûe-sīeⁿ bô seng-lí thiah am lêng-ūaⁿ khí;

    when priests have no other lucrative employment, they take their temples to pieces and rebuild them.

#### tôk chut am;

    expelled from the monastery.
* 穹am4201163
* Concave, like the sky.

#### am-bô;

    a hollow hemisphere like the sky.

#### am-bô am-bô nē;

    convex on the upper surface and concave on the under.

#### màiⁿ cò̤ khah am-bô;

    do not make it too arching.

#### cò̤ lâi am-am nē;

    made very concave.
* 蝸牛am-lo̤466
* A garden slug; a snail.

#### nŏ̤ kâi a-noⁿ-kíaⁿ tó̤ kă am-lo̤;

    two children are trying to make snails fight.

#### am-lo̤ khak;

    snail shells.

#### am-lo̤ thâng;

    the snails themselves.
* 諳am6211499
* Versed in; knowing about.

#### am-līen;

    skilled in any craft or art.

#### m̄ am sì sṳ̄;

    ignorant of the world.
* 骯髒am-cam949
* Obese; fat; dirty.

#### am-cam pûi;

    corpulent.

#### am-cam cîah;

    to eat hoggishly.
* 飯水ám127
* Water in which rice has been boiled.

#### cìm ám;

    soak in rice-water.

#### cîah ám;

    drink rice-water.
* 暗àm622729
* Dark; obscure; secret; clandestine; stealthily.

#### jît àiⁿ àm lío;

    it is growing dark.

#### jît àm;

    at dusk.

#### màiⁿ khah àm lâi;

    do not come too late in the evening.

#### mông-mông àm-àm;

    misty and dark.

#### thiⁿ o, tī àm;

    utter darkness.

#### o-o àm-àm;

    midnight darkness.

#### àm-cĕⁿ;

    secretly.

#### àm-cĕⁿ sĭeⁿ;

    secretly thought.

#### àm pâng;

    secret compartment.

#### àm húang;

    secretly ascertain.

#### àm hāi;

    secretly injure.

#### cò̤ kâi àm hō̤;

    made a secret sign.

#### phah àm hô̤h;

    gave a secret signal.

#### mêng chieⁿ kōi tng, àm cìⁿ lâng hûang;

    a visible spear is easily withstood, a secret arrow is hard to guard against.

#### thâu hîn, mâk àm;

    vertigo.

#### àm co̤h àm cĕⁿ;

    clandestine.

#### àm lûn;

    a concealed spring.

#### àm kau;

    a covered drain.

#### àm tang cò̤ sṳ̄;

    underhand doings.

#### àm pau cí kâi ì-sṳ̄ tŏ̤ lăi;

    has this meaning involved in it.

#### àm chì máng;

    the silent mosquito.

#### àm hâh;

    secretly agreeing.

#### àm ieh;

    a private understanding.

#### àm-thâu;

    hades.

#### àm tō̤;

    a hidden pocket.

#### àm-àm khṳ̂ cò̤;

    secretly went and did it.

#### sim-gî seⁿ àm kúi;

    the imagination creates ghosts.

#### lṳ́ ŏi ùi àm a bŏi?

    Are you afraid in the dark?

#### lṳ́ cŏ̤ pàng hìeⁿ àm kò̤ cò̤-nî?

    Why do you sit where it is so dark?

#### àm kè-thâu;

    a private price.

#### bô̤ kng, bô̤ àm;

    no two prices.

#### cîah o-àm pn̄g;

    eat the bread of sorrow.

#### khṳt i àm cîah jìeh cōi cîⁿ;

    had no inconsiderable amount of money privately used up by him.

#### àm kâi cōi kùe kng kâi;

    what is concealed is more than what is manifest.

#### àm-cĕⁿ sái ēng;

    what was clandestinely used up.

#### sái àm chieⁿ;

    employ an assassin.

#### hun-hun àm-àm;

    badly lighted.

#### àm-châng;

    hidden, concealed.

#### kìm tŏ̤ o-àm koiⁿ kò̤;

    shut up in the dark.
* 頸ăm4061817
* The neck; a narrow part of a thing.

#### i khṳ̀ tìo ăm, khṳt nâng kìu tîeh, bŏi sí;

    he went and hung himself, but was rescued by some one, and did not die.

#### i kâi ăm chun tn̂g-tn̂g tó̤ thó̤iⁿ;

    he was gazing with outstretched neck.

#### i kâi ăm kéng-kéng;

    his neck is long and crooked.

#### teh kàu ăm khi-khi;

    weighed down by it so that his neck is awry.

#### cai kio i kùa ăm-ûi;

    remember to put his bib on him.

#### i kâi ăm kùa cêk pak sù-cu;

    he wears a rosary around his neck.

#### i kâi ăm ío tó̤;

    his neck is rather short.

#### kâi ăm seⁿ lêk;

    he has king's-evil.

#### līu i kâi ăm;

    strangle him.

#### ăm tèng cêk kâi gṳ̄;

    "Adam's apple."

#### i pûah cîh ăm kut;

    he fell and broke his neck.

#### i kâi ăm lun-lun;

    his neck is short and thick.

#### chê i kâi ăm-kíaⁿ;

    throttled him.

#### i tó̤ khap thâu, lìam ăm;

    he is knocking his head on the ground, and pinching his neck, (as in begging vehemently).

#### lìam ăm;

    to pinch the neck violently as a counter irritant.

#### tn̂g ăm cun;

    a long-necked bottle.

#### i kâi ăm híam-híam khṳt nâng pho̤h tn̆g;

    he came very near getting his neck cut in two.

#### cŭn koi kâi ăm;

    wring the neck of a fowl.

#### ăm kṳn tau;

    a crick in the neck.

#### ăm tèng seⁿ kâi lîu;

    has goitre.
* 𠯗ăm939304
* To take into the mouth, as for swallowing.

#### lṳ́ kâi chùi ăm sĭm-mih mûeh tŏ̤?

    What have you got in your mouth?

#### khah tōa kò̤, ăm m̄ lô̤h;

    it is too big a piece, I cannot take it into my mouth.

#### cêk chùi ăm nŏ̤ kâi;

    took two at one mouthful.

#### màiⁿ ăm khah tōa chùi;

    do not take too large mouthfuls.

#### ăm tit jîp, thun m̄ lô̤h;

    can take it into the mouth, but cannot swallow it.