| 婆 | 958A50 63.93 | 部居  | 畫數 11 | ㄆㄛˊ [po2] | ||
| N. | (1) Woman, dame, crone, (coll. or contempt. as in “that woman”), always in compp. (婆子 [po2zi0]); 老婆 old woman, (coll.) wife; 家主婆 housewife, mistress of the home; 苦口婆心 with kind and compassionate persuasion. (2) Abbr. for 婆婆 [po2po0], husband's mother; 公婆 husband's father and mother; 婆家 or 婆婆家 husband's family; 有婆家了 is already betrothed; 婆媳 mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. (3) Woman of certain professions (媒婆 matchmaker, 師婆 medium, 牙婆 procuress, 穩婆 midwife, 藥婆 uneducated woman practitioner of medicine). | |||||
| Words | 1. 婆羅洲 [po2luo2zhou1], n., Borneo. 2. 婆羅門 [po2luo2men2], n., Brahman (-nical); 婆羅門教 Brahmanism; 婆羅門引, name of MC song. 3. 婆娘 [po2niang0], n., (dial.) lower-class woman. 4. 婆婆 [po2po0], n., husband's mother (婆婆家, husband's family), also loosely, a woman of older generation, addressing one's maternal grandmother. 5. 婆婆媽媽的 [po2po2ma1ma1de0], adj., effeminate, sissy (of mother's boy); indecisive, hesitant. 6. 婆娑 [po2suo1], adj., (lit.) whirling (of dance), loitering, lingering (of music). | |||||