su-pú-lín-guh

Min Nan

Etymology

From Japanese スプリング (supuringu), from English spring.

Pronunciation

(Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-pú-lín-guh
- Tâi-lô: su-pú-lín-guh
- Phofsit Daibuun: su'pwlyn'guq
- IPA (Taipei): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ pu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ɡuʔ³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ pu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ɡuʔ³²/

Noun

su-pú-lín-guh (POJ)

(Taiwan) spring (mechanical device)

References

“springs in a^[sic] easy chair or sofa, bed springs”, in English-Taiwanese Dictionary, Taichung: Maryknoll Language Service Center, 1979, published 2013, archived from the original on 2022-02-19, page 827.
張裕宏 (Tiuⁿ, Jû-hông), editor (2009), “su-pú-lín-guh”, in TJ台語白話小詞典 [TJ's Dictionary of Non-Literary Taiwanese] (in Min Nan and Mandarin), Tainan: 亞細亞國際傳播社, →ISBN, page 492.

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