湯婆

Chinese
soup; hot water grandmother; matron; mother-in-law
trad. (湯婆) 湯 婆
simp. (汤婆) 汤 婆

Pronunciation

Noun

湯婆

  1. (archaic or dialectal) hot water bottle

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 湯壺 (“hot water bottle”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 湯壺, 暖壺
Mandarin Harbin 水鱉
Yantai (Muping) 水鱉子
Jinan 熨壺, 燙壺
Luoyang 湯壺, 暖壺
Xi'an 暖壺
Xining 湯婆子, 湯瓶
Chengdu 湯婆子, 燙壺
Guiyang 湯婆子
Liuzhou 湯婆子, 湯壺
Yangzhou 湯壺, 湯捂子
Nanjing 湯壺
Cantonese Guangzhou 暖婆
Gan Nanchang 湯婆子
Lichuan 湯婆
Pingxiang 暖壺
Hakka Meixian 暖壺
Yudu 暖壺
Jin Taiyuan 水鱉兒
Min Bei Jian'ou 湯壺
Min Dong Fuzhou 湯壺
Min Nan Xiamen 燒水壺, 水鱉, 水龜
Quanzhou 水龜
Zhangzhou 水龜
Wu Shanghai 湯婆子
Shanghai (Chongming) 湯婆子
Suzhou 湯婆子
Danyang 湯婆子, 燙婆子
Hangzhou 湯婆子
Wenzhou 湯壺
Jinhua 湯壺
Xiang Changsha 湯壺人
Loudi 湯婆子, 燙壺

Derived terms

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (湯婆):
  • → Japanese: 湯婆(とうば) (tōba)

Others:

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
湯 婆
たん
Grade: 3		 ほ > ぽ
Grade: S
tōon

From a later borrowing of Mandarin 湯婆／汤婆 (tāngpó).

Pronunciation

Noun

湯(たん)婆(ぽ) • (tanpo) 

  1. a hot water bottle
  2. (Kansai) a tall kettle used to heat sake
    Synonym: 銚釐 (chirori)
Derived terms
  • 湯(たん)婆(ぽ)酒(ざけ) (tanpozake)
  • 燗(かん)湯(たん)婆(ぽ) (kan tanpo)
  • 心(こころ)得(え)湯(たん)婆(ぽ) (kokoroe tanpo)
  • 湯(ゆ)たんぽ (yutanpo)

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
湯 婆
とう
Grade: 3		 ば
Grade: S
goon

/tauba/ → /tɔːba/ → /toːba/

From an earlier borrowing of Mandarin 湯婆／汤婆 (tāngpó).

Pronunciation

Noun

湯(とう)婆(ば) • (tōba) ←たうば (tauba)?

  1. a hot water bottle

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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