Sentence examples for dialect means from inspiring English sources

Obiang, from the Hokkien Chinese dialect, means ugly or outdated.

'Na Vota, in Piedmont dialect, means "olden times".

Nothing squishy here; the word "osso," applied to vineyard names in the local dialect, means "bone" in Italian.

Carved in the stone is the inscription "Kentoc'h mervel," which in the Breton dialect means, "We would rather die".

The original name for the area is Xhamissa, which in Khoikhoi dialect means "place of sweet waters".

At Vire-sur-Lot, Clos Triguedina, which in Occitan dialect means "I need a drink", proudly displays a framed letter from Jacques Chirac.

(Sweden doesn't have anything to do with the country, but instead appears to have come from "swithen," which in Cumbrian dialect meant land cleared by burning).

As a bonus, the girls talk in their home dialects ("Hougen" means dialect in Japanese) in order to satisfy geeks all over Nippon.

Furthermore, the similarities between SQL dialects meant that extending the DBLModeller was a straightforward task.

If a player shoots an air ball, the fans shout "yangwei"; in the Sichuan dialect, it means "impotent".

(Some tie the name to the slang term "reblessa," which in the local dialect basically means to steal).