肉麵

Chinese

		meat; flesh	flour; noodles
trad. (肉麵/肉麪)		肉	麵/麪
simp. (肉面)		肉	面

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bah-mī / mah-mī

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bah-mī
    • Tâi-lô: bah-mī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bahmi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ mĩ³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ mĩ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ mĩ²²/
    • IPA (Philippines): /ba(ʔ)⁵ mi⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mah-mī
    • Tâi-lô: mah-mī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mahmi
    • IPA (Philippines): /ma(ʔ)⁵ mi⁴¹/

Noun

肉麵

1. a noodle dish of wheat flour noodles or rice noodles or cellophane noodles cooked and served with meat, especially pork fat, and sometimes with shrimp or prawn

Compounds

• 牛肉麵／牛肉面
• 豬肉麵／猪肉面
• 雞肉麵／鸡肉面

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bam-i
• → Dutch: bami
• → English: mami, bakmi
• → Indonesian: bakmi
• → Javanese: bakmi
• → Tagalog: mami, bami
• → Thai: บะหมี่ (bà-mìi)

References

• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “bah-mīⁿ”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 329; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 329
• 東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931) “肉麵”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 702
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “肉麵”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 542
• “bah-mī 肉麵”, in Taiwanese-English Dictionary‎^[2], Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1976, archived from the original on 2020-08-11, page 17.