鴨母

Chinese

		duck	female; mother
trad. (鴨母)		鴨	母
simp. (鸭母)		鸭	母
anagram		母鴨／母鸭

Pronunciation

• Eastern Min (BUC): ák-mō̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ah-bú / ah-bó

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ah⁴ bho²

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• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ák-mō̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ mo³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-bú
    • Tâi-lô: ah-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ahbuo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /a(ʔ)⁵ bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ bu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou, Penang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-bó
    • Tâi-lô: ah-bó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ahboir
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ bɤ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Penang): /a(ʔ)³⁻⁴ bo⁴⁴⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ bo⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ah⁴ bho²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ah bó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aʔ²⁻⁴ bo⁵²⁻²¹/

Noun

鴨母

1. (Coastal Min) female duck

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 母鴨 (“female duck”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		母鴨, 雌鴨
Mandarin	Taiwan	母鴨
	Harbin	母鴨
	Yantai (Muping)	母鴨巴子
	Jinan	母鴨
	Luoyang	母鴨
	Xi'an	母鴨子, 鴨僆 has never laid eggs
	Yinchuan	母鴨子
	Xining	母鴨子
	Ürümqi	母鴨子
	Wuhan	母鴨子
	Chengdu	母鴨子
	Guiyang	母鴨
	Liuzhou	母鴨
	Xuzhou	母鴨子
	Yangzhou	母鴨, 母鴨子
	Nanjing	母鴨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鴨乸
	Hong Kong	鴨乸
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	鴨乸
	Macau	鴨乸
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	鴨乸
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	鴨乸
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	鴨乸
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	鴨乸
	Foshan	鴨乸
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	鴨乸
	Foshan (Shunde)	鴨乸
	Foshan (Sanshui)	鴨乸
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	鴨乸
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	鴨乸
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	鴨乸
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	鴨乸
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	鴨乸
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	鴨乸
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	鴨乸
	Taishan	鴨乸
	Kaiping (Chikan)	鴨乸
	Enping (Niujiang)	鴨乸
	Heshan (Yayao)	鴨乸
	Dongguan	鴨乸 has laid eggs, 鴨蘭 has never laid eggs
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	鴨乸
Gan	Nanchang	鴨婆
	Lichuan	鴨𡡉兒
	Pingxiang	鴨婆
Hakka	Meixian	鴨嫲
	Xingning	鴨嫲
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	鴨乸
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	鴨嫲
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	鴨嫲
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	鴨嫲
	Conghua (Lütian)	鴨嫲
	Yudu	鴨婆
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鴨嫲
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鴨嫲
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鴨嫲
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鴨嫲
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鴨嫲
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鴨嫲
Jin	Taiyuan	母鴨子
	Xinzhou	母鴨子
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鴨嫲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鴨母
Southern Min	Xiamen	鴨母
	Quanzhou	鴨母
	Jinjiang	鴨母
	Taipei	鴨母
	Kaohsiung	鴨母
	Penang (Hokkien)	鴨母
	Manila (Hokkien)	鴨母
	Chaozhou	鴨母
	Jieyang	鴨母
	Leizhou	鴨母, 鴨僆 has never laid eggs
	Haikou	鴨母
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	鴨母
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	母鴨
Wu	Shanghai	雌鴨
	Shanghai (Chongming)	子鴨
	Danyang	母鴨
Xiang	Changsha	鴨婆, 鴨婆子
	Loudi	鴨婆

Derived terms

• 鴨母仔／鸭母仔
• 鴨母卵／鸭母卵
• 鴨母喙罔撈／鸭母喙罔捞
• 鴨母捻／鸭母捻
• 鴨母笛仔／鸭母笛仔
• 鴨母跤／鸭母跤
• 鴨母蹄／鸭母蹄

 

References

• “Entry #12132”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.