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ကလေး

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Burmese

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Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (kɑ⁵³ le⁵⁵ "child"). The constituent syllables don't seem to make much sense in relation to "child", and MED accordingly treats this two-syllable word as an atomic unit. Could this be a loan from some other language in the area, like Mon-Khmer or Kra-Dai?”

Pronunciation

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  • Phonetic respelling: ခ'လေး
  • IPA(key): /kʰəlé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ka.le: • ALA-LC: kaleʺ • BGN/PCGN: hkăle: • Okell: hkăleì

Noun

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ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. child (son or daughter; minor)
  2. young son and daughter
  3. a young man
  4. a person who is not yet of age
  5. behaving in a way that is not worthy of dignity

Adjective

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ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. small, underage (baby butterfly).

Classifier

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ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. to lighten the depth, to be polite, a word that helps to make a pleasant impression (boo boo baby, stubborn boy, he is a child, a child of fire).

Derived terms

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Further reading

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