# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/meng
### mengmeng

* 猛méng610948
* Stern; severe; cruel.

#### ui-méng;

    awful; imposing.

#### sîn-sìeⁿ ui-méng căi;

    the gods are awe-inspiring.

#### bô̤ ui-méng cū m̄ tit nâng ùi;

    without sternness of aspect, no fear is inspired in any one.
* 明mêng599724
* Clear; lucid; plain; evident; ostensibly; perspicacious; intelligent; illustrious; splendid; brilliant; to shed light on. ​tàⁿ mêng-pêh;
    state clearly.

#### mêng-mêng pêh-pêh kâi tŏ̤-li;

    a doctrine that is plain.

#### tàⁿ chut lâi kuang-mêng cìaⁿ-tăi;

    stated in a clear and straight forward way.

#### mêng-mêng to̤ ŭ;

    it is evidently so.

#### úa mêng-mêng thóiⁿ-kìⁿ;

    I saw it plainly.

#### sǹg hun-mêng;

    make a distinct reckoning.

#### kau-mêng;

    clear headed.

#### chong-mêng;

    quick of apprehension.

#### thiaⁿ m̄ mêng;

    did not hear distinctly.

#### mêng-jît;

    tomorrow.
* 鳴mêng5981963
* The cry of a bird or animals; to call out; to sound a sonorous note.

#### mêng wn;

    to cry out for redress.

#### khṳ̀ kuaⁿ-hú kò̤ mêng wn;

    go to the ofificials and proclaim one’s wrongs.

#### kuaⁿ cē chut gê-mn̂g cū mêng lô̤, pàng phàu;

    as soon as the magistrate left the court, they sounded the gong, and fired a canon.

#### koi mêng kâi sî-hāu;

    at cock’s crow.

#### úa ŭ kâi cṳ̆-mêng-ceng;

    I have an alarm clock.

#### ko cíeⁿ lâng mêng;

    you can’t clap with one hand.
* 冥mêng600148
* Dim; obscure; cavernous recesses; night-like; dismal; the unseen world; hades.

#### mêng-mêng;

    the under world.

#### mêng-mêng cṳ tang cṳ̌ ŭ cú-cái;

    sheol even has its lord.

#### hiuⁿ-mêng kâi sṳ̄ lâng cai;

    the condition of things in hades is difficult to discover.
* 盟mêng5791088
* A solemn declaration before the gods.

#### i kio i sĭ mêng hiaⁿ-tĭ;

    they are sworn brothers.

#### nŏ̤ nâng sĭ mêng kâi;

    the two are leagued by oath.

#### tâng soiⁿ kúi nâng pài mêng;

    at the time when several of us took the oath.

#### tŏ̤ sîn mīn côiⁿ mêng-sī kùe kâi;

    what has been sworn to before the gods.
* 銘mêng5991676
* To engrave on metal or stone in order to remember; to record for the purpose of preserving; to inscribe on the memory.

#### mêng seng;

    an imperial inscription given to worthy people.

#### mŏ̤ⁿ-cì-mêng;

    an engraved epitaph.

#### mêng-kám tŏ̤ sim;

    engraven on the heart.
* 瞑mêng60010910
* To close the eyes in death.

#### kam sim mêng mâk;

    would cheerfully close the eyes upon this world.
* 螟蛉mêng-lêng600
* A caterpillar which the solitary wasp is said to adopt and bring up as its own offspring.

#### mêng-lêng kâi kíaⁿ;

    an adopted child.
* 命mĕng601305
* To order, to command, to charge; directions; requirements; behests; decrees.

#### cun mĕng;

    obey orders.

#### sŭn i kâi mĕng kîaⁿ;

    went according to his commands.

#### cí kâi kuaⁿ kâi mĕng-lĕng ngîam căi;

    this officer’s orders are very strict.

#### líang ke kak uaⁿ thien mĕng;

    let each do his duty in the sphere where heaven has placed him.

#### thieng mĕng;

    fate; heaven's decree.

#### hŏng mĕng;

    receive orders.

#### it-it jŭ mĕng;

    everything has been done according to orders.
* 孟mĕng580395
* Great; eminent; senior; the first month of a season.

#### mĕng-cṳ́;

    the sage, Mencius.

#### cêk khùi saⁿ kâi gûeh hun cò̤ mĕng, tŏng, kùi;

    the three months in each quarter are distinguished as the first second and third of a trine series.

#### mĕng chun, mĕng hē, mĕng chiu, mĕng tang;

    the first month of spring, of summer, of autumn, and of winter.