# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/ca
### ca

* 女ca-bó641380
* A female, of the human race.

#### sĭ ta-po a ca-bó?

    Is it a boy or a girl?

#### ca-bó kíaⁿ;

    a daughter.

#### ca-bó ké cò̤ ta-po;

    a woman disguised as a man.
* 渣ca3859
* Dregs; lees; what is left after infusion.

#### îeh ca;

    the dregs of medicine.

#### tê ca;

    tea leaves that have been steeped.

#### tè tīo ca;

    strain out the dregs.

#### kbṳ̀ ca;

    take out the lees.

#### hun-ca;

    the refuse left in the pipe after opium has been smoked.

#### ca-cái;

    sediment.
* 昨ca1005725
* Yesterday; time gone; recently.

#### ca-jît;

    yesterday.

#### i ca-jît cìaⁿ lâi;

    he came yesterday.

#### úa ca-mêⁿ-hng m̄ cai kio i tàⁿ;

    I did not think to tell him last evening.

#### ca-mêⁿ cn̂g kâi bŏi ût;

    I could not ​sleep at all last night.

#### i sĭ ca-mn̂g-khí lâi a sĭ ca-ĕ-kùa lâi?

    Did he come yesterday morning or yesterday afternoon?

#### sĭ ca-jît-tàu lâi;

    he came yesterday noon.
* 嗟ca9733010
* To sigh.

#### ca-thàng;

    to sigh or moan.
* 楂ca3759
* A sour red fruit, a species of hawthorn.

#### suaⁿ-ca; sien-ca;

    a sour fruit, the size of a cherry.
* 昔cá802724
* Anciently; formerly; a long time ago.

#### kó-cá;

    in olden times.

#### ho̤h cá;

    a considerable length of time since.

#### cá sî; cá nî;

    in former times.

#### kim cá m̄ tâng;

    it is not now as it-used to be.

#### cá tiang-sî;

    a long time ago.

#### cá-cá cū ŭ;

    in very ancient times there were.

#### kó-cá kâi nâng;

    people of olden times.
* 早cá953722
* Early; betimes; soon.

#### khah cá;

    too early.

#### thiⁿ-kng-cá;

    at daylight.

#### kúaⁿ cá;

    take time by the forelock.

#### cá pn̄g;

    breakfast.

#### cá nî;

    some years ago.

#### tâng-cá;

    a little while ago.

#### tâng cá ŭ;

    he had some just before.

#### cá sîn;

    early dawn.

#### cá cē;

    earlier.

#### cá cai ŭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ, úa cĭu àiⁿ;

    had I known before that there were such, I should have wanted some.

#### ṳ̆-pĭ cá cē;

    be ready in good time.

#### úa tâng cá-cá thî-hûang i;

    I gave him warning in good time.

#### cá khṳ̀, cá lâi;

    the sooner you go the sooner you will get back.

#### cá chut, àm jîp;

    go out for a long day's work.

#### cêk cá cĭu cáu-khí;

    get up betimes.

#### cá tang, mn̄g tang;

    the early and the late crop.

#### cá châng; mn̄g châng;

    the first and the second rice crop of the year.

#### cá châng siu chek kâi sî-hāu, kìe-cò̤ cá tang;

    the time of harvesting the first crop of the year is called the early harvest.

#### pó tōa cá a sĭ pó cá kíaⁿ?

    Did you plant the early or the later sort?

#### cá mn̄g kâi sî-kè m̄ tâng;

    prices are different at the two harvests.

#### úa tâng-cá cai;

    I knew it before.

#### úa cá mn̄g cū kàu;

    I am there early and late.

#### cá hŏ cá cêⁿ, ùaⁿ hŏ lâu mêⁿ;

    if it rains early in the morning the sky will soon clear, but if it rains late in the afternoon, it will rain all night.

#### sĭ lṳ́ sĭang ŏi cá;

    you are the one who can do it soonest.

#### cîah cá tê;

    take tea early in the morning.

#### bŏi cá;

    cannot be punctual.
* 詐cà41495
* To deceive; to feign; to delude; underhand.

#### kang-cà;

    delusive.

#### cà-ngŭi;

    hypocritical.

#### cà lêk;

    extort by a false claim.

#### cà-phìen;

    fraudnlent,

#### cà pēⁿ;

    a feigned illness.
* 乍cà444
* Fitful; for a moment.

#### cà lîang cà jûah;

    now it is cold then it is warm; the weather is fitful.

#### cà sie cà chìn;

    hot and cold alternately.

#### cà khin cà tăng;

    better a little while and then worse again.

#### cà hŏ cà cêⁿ;

    changeable weather, rain and sunshine alternating.
* 竦cā8311177
* To shudder; the flesh creeping from awe or terror; horrified.

#### kiaⁿ kàu cêk sin cā-cā-kìe;

    so frightened that my whole flesh crept.

#### thóiⁿ tîeh koi-bó̤-phûe cā-cā-kìe lí-lí phû;

    on seeing it my flesh crept and goose-pimples came up all over me.