大某

Chinese

		big; great; huge big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor	(used before measure word and noun) some; (a) certain; so and so
trad. (大某)		大	某
simp. #(大某)		大	某

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tōa-bó͘

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tōa-bó͘
    • Tâi-lô: tuā-bóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doaxbor
    • IPA (Taipei): /tua³³⁻¹¹ bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Penang): /tua²¹ bɔ⁴⁴⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tua²²⁻²¹ bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tua⁴¹⁻²² bɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tua³³⁻²¹ bɔ⁴¹/

Noun

大某

1. (Southern Min) official wife (as opposed to a concubine)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 大老婆 (“official wife; primary wife”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正室, 正房, 正妻, 嫡妻
Mandarin	Beijing	大婆兒, 大娘們兒
	Taiwan	大老婆
	Luoyang	大婆兒, 大老婆
	Yantai (Muping)	大婆子
	Xi'an	大老婆
	Lanzhou	大老婆
	Chengdu	大老婆, 大婆子
	Liuzhou	大婆
	Xuzhou	大婆兒, 大婆子, 大老婆
	Nanjing	大老婆
	Singapore	大老婆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大婆
	Hong Kong	大婆
	Dongguan	大婆
Gan	Nanchang	大老婆
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
	Zhangzhou	大某, 大姐
	Singapore (Hokkien)	大某
	Manila (Hokkien)	大某
	Leizhou	大娘
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大婆
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	大老官
	Suzhou	大老媽
	Hangzhou	大老婆
	Wenzhou	正娘