啉水

Chinese

			water; river
simp. and trad. (啉水)		啉	水

Pronunciation

Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lîm-súi
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lim-chúi

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lîm-súi
  - Hakka Romanization System: lim^ˊ sui^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lim¹ sui³
  - Sinological IPA: /lim²⁴ su̯i³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lim-chúi
  - Tâi-lô: lim-tsuí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: limzuie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lim⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lim³³ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lim⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lim⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lim⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sui⁴¹/

Verb

啉⫽水 (verb-object)

(Hakka, Hokkien) to drink water
- 恁熱个天，啉水盡止渴。 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
  恁热个天，啉水尽止渴。 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]
  From: ^[1]
  Án ngie̍t ke thiên, lîm-súi chhin chṳ́-hot. [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]
  In such a hot weather, drinking water is the best way to quench your thirst.

Synonyms

喝水 (hēshuǐ)
食水 (ziah⁸ zui²) (Teochew)
飲水 / 饮水 (Hakka, literary or Cantonese)

References

^ “Entry #HK0000007659”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.