起魔
Chinese
| to rise; to raise; to get up | devil | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (起魔) | 起 | 魔 | |
| simp. #(起魔) | 起 | 魔 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-mô͘
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-mô͘
- Tâi-lô: khí-môo
- Phofsit Daibuun: qymoo
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃¹³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ mɔ̃²⁴/
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ mɔ̃²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
Verb
起魔
- (Southern Min) to go crazy; to go mad; to lose one's mind; to go nuts; to freak out
- (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to act shamelessly; to nag unreasonably
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 發瘋 (“to go mad”) [map]
- (to act shamelessly): (Hokkien) 起魔神