大房
Chinese
big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor |
house | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (大房) | 大 | 房 | |
| simp. #(大房) | 大 | 房 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dua5 bang2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: dàfáng
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄈㄤˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dàfáng
- Wade–Giles: ta4-fang2
- Yale: dà-fáng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahfarng
- Palladius: дафан (dafan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä⁵¹ fɑŋ³⁵/
- Homophones:
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- (Standard Chinese)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: dua5 bang2 [Phonetic: dua5 ang2]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: duā-báng
- Sinological IPA (key): /tua¹¹ (p-)aŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: dua5 bang2 [Phonetic: dua5 wang2]
- Sinological IPA (key): /tua²¹ (p-)βaŋ²⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-pâng
- Tâi-lô: tuā-pâng
- Phofsit Daibuun: doaxpaang
- IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ paŋ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ paŋ²³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: dua7 bang5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tuā pâng
- Sinological IPA (key): /tua¹¹ paŋ⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Note: Shantou.
Noun
大房
- (Teochew, Puxian Min) principal rooms in a quadrangle
- (Hokkien, Puxian Min) the eldest son of a family or the family line to which he belongs
- (Puxian Min, historical) legal wife
- (Puxian Min) large family with many male offspring
Synonyms
- (principal rooms): 正房 (zhèngfáng), 正屋 (zhèngwū)
- (eldest son and his family): 長房／长房 (zhǎngfáng)
- (legal wife):
Dialectal synonyms of 大老婆 (“official wife; primary wife”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 正室, 正房, 正妻, 嫡妻, 正室, 正配, 元配, 髮妻 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 大婆兒, 大娘們兒 |
| Taiwan | 大老婆 | |
| Singapore | 大老婆 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 大婆子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 大婆兒, 大老婆 |
| Xi'an | 大老婆 | |
| Xuzhou | 大婆兒, 大婆子, 大老婆 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 大老婆 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 大老婆, 大婆子 |
| Liuzhou | 大婆 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 大老婆 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 大婆 |
| Hong Kong | 大婆 | |
| Dongguan | 大婆 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 大老婆 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 大婆 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 大老嫗 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 大婆子 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 大婆 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 大某 |
| Quanzhou | 大某 | |
| Jinjiang | 大某 | |
| Yongchun | 大某 | |
| Zhangzhou | 大某, 大姐 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 大某 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 大某 | |
| Leizhou | 大娘 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 大房, 正房 |
| Xianyou | 大房, 正房 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 大婆 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 大老官 |
| Suzhou | 大老媽 | |
| Hangzhou | 大老婆 | |
| Wenzhou | 正娘 | |
Derived terms
- 大房厝
- 大房大姓
References
- 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “大房”, 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 169.