婆 | [ pó ] grandmother, matron, mother-in-law, (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship) |
婆姨 | [ pó yí ] (dialect) wife, married woman |
婆娑 | [ pó suō ] to swirl about, (of leaves and branches) to sway |
婆娘 | [ pó niáng ] woman (derog.) |
婆婆 | [ pó po ] husband's mother, mother-in-law, grandma |
婆婆媽媽 | [ pó po mā mā ] effeminate, old-womanish, garrulous, fainthearted, overly careful, overly sensitive, maudlin |
婆媳 | [ pó xí ] mother-in-law and daughter-in-law |
婆子 | [ pó zi ] old woman |
婆家 | [ pó jia ] husband's family |
婆心 | [ pó xīn ] (literary) kindheartedness |
婆羅洲 | [ pó luó zhoū ] Borneo island (of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) |
婆羅浮屠 | [ pó luó fú tú ] Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia) |
婆羅門 | [ pó luó mén ] Brahmin |
婆羅門教 | [ pó luó mén ] Brahmanism, Hinduism |
⇒ 三姑六婆 | [ sān gū liù pó ] women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom) |
⇒ 佔婆 | [ zhàn pó ] Champa (Sanskrit: Campapura or Campanagara), ancient kingdom in the South of Vietnam c. 200-1693 |
⇒ 催生婆 | [ cuī shēng pó ] midwife who induces labor |
⇒ 八婆 | [ bā pó ] meddling woman, nosy parker (Cantonese) |
⇒ 公婆 | [ gōng pó ] husband's parents, parents-in-law |
⇒ 公說公有理,婆說婆有理 | [ gōng shuō gōng yoǔ lǐ pó shuō pó yoǔ lǐ ] both sides claim they're right (idiom) |
⇒ 公說公有理,婆說婆有理 | [ gōng shuō gōng yoǔ lǐ pó shuō pó yoǔ lǐ ] both sides claim they're right (idiom) |
⇒ 叔婆 | [ shū pó ] aunt by marriage, husband's aunt, husband's father's younger brother's wife |
⇒ 外婆 | [ waì pó ] (coll.) mother's mother, maternal grandmother |
⇒ 多年媳婦熬成婆 | [ duō nián xí fù aó chéng pó ] see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[xi2 fu4 ao4 cheng2 po2] |
⇒ 大老婆 | [ dà laǒ pó ] primary wife |
⇒ 太婆 | [ taì pó ] great-grandmother |
⇒ 姑婆 | [ gū pó ] grandfather's sister, sister of a woman's father-in-law |
⇒ 婆婆 | [ pó po ] husband's mother, mother-in-law, grandma |
⇒ 婆婆媽媽 | [ pó po mā mā ] effeminate, old-womanish, garrulous, fainthearted, overly careful, overly sensitive, maudlin |
⇒ 媒婆 | [ meí pó ] matchmaker |
⇒ 媳婦熬成婆 | [ xí fù aó chéng pó ] lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom), fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor, what goes around comes around |
⇒ 家婆 | [ jiā pó ] (dialect) mother-in-law, (house)wife |
⇒ 富婆 | [ fù pó ] wealthy woman |
⇒ 小老婆 | [ laǒ pó ] concubine, mistress, (dialect) woman |
⇒ 巫婆 | [ wū pó ] witch, sorceress, female shaman |
⇒ 怕老婆 | [ pà laǒ pó ] henpecked, to be under one's wife's thumb |
⇒ 拍婆子 | [ paī pó zi ] to chase girls, to hang around with girls |
⇒ 接生婆 | [ jiē shēng pó ] midwife |
⇒ 摩訶婆羅多 | [ mó hē pó luó duō ] Mahābhārata, second great Indian epic after 羅摩衍那|罗摩衍那[Luo2 mo2 yan3 na4], possibly originally c. 4th century BC |
⇒ 收生婆 | [ shoū shēng pó ] midwife |
⇒ 月婆子 | [ yuè pó zi ] (coll.) lying-in woman |
⇒ 淚眼婆娑 | [ leì yǎn pó suō ] tearful (idiom) |
⇒ 湯婆 | [ tāng pó ] hot-water bottle |
⇒ 湯婆子 | [ tāng pó zi ] hot-water bottle |
⇒ 濕婆 | [ shī pó ] Shiva (Hindu deity) |
⇒ 王婆賣瓜,自賣自誇 | [ wáng pó maì guā zì maì zì kuā ] every potter praises his own pot (idiom), all one's geese are swans |
⇒ 產婆 | [ chǎn pó ] midwife |
⇒ 男人婆 | [ nán rén pó ] tomboy |
⇒ 穩婆 | [ wěn pó ] midwife (old term) |
⇒ 管家婆 | [ guǎn jiā pó ] housewife (jocularly), female housekeeper of a higher rank (old), busybody |
⇒ 老太婆 | [ laǒ taì pó ] old woman (at times contemptuous) |
⇒ 老婆 | [ laǒ pó ] (coll.) wife |
⇒ 老婆孩子熱炕頭 | [ laǒ pó haí zi rè kàng tou ] wife, kids and a warm bed (idiom), the simple and good life |
⇒ 苦口婆心 | [ kǔ koǔ pó xīn ] earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently |
⇒ 豬婆龍 | [ zhū pó lóng ] Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis) |
⇒ 醜媳婦早晚也得見公婆 | [ choǔ xí fù zaǒ wǎn yě deǐ jiàn gōng pó ] lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom), fig. it's not something you can avoid forever |
⇒ 阿婆 | [ ā pó ] granny, mother-in-law |
⇒ 雞婆 | [ jī pó ] (dialect) hen, prostitute, (Tw) interfering, nosy, busybody (from Taiwanese 家婆, Tai-lo pr. [ke-pô]) |
⇒ 鬼婆 | [ guǐ pó ] Caucasian woman (Cantonese) |
⇒ 麻婆豆腐 | [ má pó doù fǔ ] mapo tofu, stir-fried beancurd in chili sauce |
⇒ 黃臉婆 | [ huáng liǎn pó ] faded old woman |