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Chinese
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just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister |
mother; mama
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| trad. (公媽)
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公
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媽
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| simp. (公妈)
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公
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妈
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Pronunciation
Noun
公媽
- (Puxian Min, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) ancestor; predecessor
- (Puxian Min, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) spirit tablet; ancestral tablet (tablet with the name of an ancestor inscribed on it)
- (Puxian Min, Hokkien, Teochew) grandparents
Synonyms
- 上輩 / 上辈 (shàngbèi)
- 上輩子 / 上辈子 (shàngbèizi)
- 先人 (xiānrén)
- 先代 (xiāndài) (literary)
- 先古 (xiāngǔ) (literary)
- 先君 (xiānjūn) (literary)
- 先祖 (xiānzǔ) (literary)
- 先輩 / 先辈 (xiānbèi)
- 公婆 (Hokkien)
- 早勻 / 早匀 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 父祖 (fùzǔ) (literary)
- 皇考 (huángkǎo) (archaic)
- 祖上 (zǔshàng)
- 祖先 (zǔxiān)
- 祖公 (Hokkien)
- 祖宗 (zǔzōng)
- 老祖宗
- 老輩 / 老辈 (lǎobèi)
- (spirit tablet): 神位 (shénwèi), 神主 (shénzhǔ), 牌位 (páiwèi); (Hokkien) 公婆 (gōngpó)
Derived terms
References
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “公妈”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 232.