呀囒米

Chinese

			rice; metre
trad. (呀囒米)		呀囒	米
simp. (呀𪢠米)		呀𪢠	米

Etymology

呀囒／呀𪢠 is borrowed from Spanish grana (“cochineal”) (Ching, 2017).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa⁴ laan¹ mai⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): giâ-lan-bí

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaa⁴ laan¹ mai⁵
    • Yale: ngàh lāan máih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa⁴ laan¹ mai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nga⁴ lan¹ mei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaː²¹ laːn⁵⁵ mɐi̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: giâ-lan-bí
    • Tâi-lô: giâ-lan-bí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gialanbie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡia²⁴⁻²² lan⁴⁴⁻²² bi⁵³/

Noun

呀囒米

1. (obsolete) cochineal

   • 呀囒米來自外洋用以染色 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     呀𪢠米来自外洋用以染色 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 1841, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, page 204

     ngaa⁴ laan¹ mai⁵ loi⁴ zi⁶ ngoi⁶ joeng⁴ jung⁶ ji⁵ jim⁵ sik¹ [Jyutping]

     Cochineal comes from foreign countries, and is used in dyeing.

Synonyms

• 胭脂蟲／胭脂虫 (yānzhichóng)

References

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bí”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 18; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 18
• Chalmers, John (1907) “cochineal”, in English and Cantonese Dictionary, seventh edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., page 46