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柑仔蜜

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More information tangerine, honey ...

Etymology 1

Phono-semantic matching of Tagalog kamatis (“tomato”), from Spanish tomate (“tomato”), from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (Zhang and Xiang, 2016).

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kam-á-bi̍t

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Tainan, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-á-bi̍t
  - Tâi-lô: kam-á-bi̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kam'afbit
  - IPA (Tainan): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁵⁵ bit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bit̚⁴/

Noun

柑仔蜜

(Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka, chiefly southern Taiwan) tomato [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

More information Variety, Location ...

Dialectal synonyms of 番茄 (“tomato”) [map]

Etymology 2

More information tangerine, honey ...

Phono-semantic matching of Malay gambir (“gambier”).

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kam-á-bi̍t

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-á-bi̍t
  - Tâi-lô: kam-á-bi̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kam'afbit
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bit̚⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bit̚⁴/

Noun

柑仔蜜

(Hokkien, Teochew, traditional Chinese medicine) gambier (extract derived from the leaves of Uncaria gambir) [from 18th c.]
- Late Qing/Early Republic, 《古板一世報全歌》, volume 4, 潮州 [Chaozhou]: 李萬利, page 11r:
  
  上坡人面甚生稀/何到十八個溪墘 /阿葉在作甘仔密/直往行中去问伊 [Teochew, trad.]
  上坡人面甚生稀/何到十八个溪墘 /阿叶在作甘仔密/直往行中去问伊 [Teochew, simp.]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

阿仙藥／阿仙药 (āxiānyào)

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