su-pú-lín-guh
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Hokkien
Etymology
From Japanese スプリング (supuringu), from English spring.
Pronunciation
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-pú-lín-guh
- Tâi-lô: su-pú-lín-guh
- Phofsit Daibuun: su'pwlyn'guq
- IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ pu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡuʔ³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ pu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡuʔ³²/
Noun
su-pú-lín-guh
- (Taiwan) spring (mechanical device)
References
- “springs in a easy chair or sofa, bed springs”, in English-Taiwanese Dictionary, Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1979, published 2013, archived from the original on 2022-02-19, page 827.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.張裕宏 (Tiuⁿ, Jû-hông), editor (2009), “su-pú-lín-guh”, in TJ台語白話小詞典 [TJ's Dictionary of Non-Literary Taiwanese] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Tainan: 亞細亞國際傳播社, →ISBN, page 492.