老奶
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix) |
breast; lady; milk | ||
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trad. (老奶) | 老 | 奶 | |
simp. #(老奶) | 老 | 奶 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Jin (Wiktionary): lau1 nai2
- Northern Min (KCR): sē-nǎi
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: lau1 nai2
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /lau¹¹ nai⁵³/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sē-nǎi
- Sinological IPA (key): /se⁵⁵ nai²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
Noun
[edit]老奶
- (Jin) great-grandmother (particularly paternal grandfather's mother)
- (Northern Min) godmother; (nominally) adoptive mother
Synonyms
[edit]Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 乾媽, 乾娘, 義母 | |
Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 乾媽, 乾娘 |
Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 乾娘 |
Wanrong | 乾媽 | |
Xi'an | 乾媽 | |
Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 乾媽 |
Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 乾媽 |
Liuzhou | 乾媽, 契媽 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 契媽 |
Hong Kong | 契媽 | |
Dongguan | 契媽 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 乾娘 |
Lichuan | 契娘 | |
Pingxiang | 乾娘 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 相認哀 |
Yudu | 契姐, 奶媽 | |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 老奶 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 義奶, 義娘奶 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 契母 |
Quanzhou | 契母 | |
Jinjiang | 契母 | |
Zhangzhou | 契母 | |
Tainan | 契母 GT | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 契母 | |
Shantou | 契母, 契哀 | |
Jieyang | 契哀 | |
Leizhou | 契嬭 | |
Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 契媽, 契娘 |
Wu | Suzhou | 乾娘 |
Hangzhou | 乾娘 | |
Xiang | Hengyang | 乾娘 |
Note | GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified) |