ကွေ့
Appearance
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kwḛ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: kwe. • ALA-LC: kveʹ • BGN/PCGN: kwe. • Okell: kweí
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ကွေ့ • (kwe.)
- one of the racial groups once inhabiting some areas of the Shan State
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *koj (“to bend; curved; lap; bosom”); compare perhaps Old Chinese 跪 (OC *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ, “to kneel”) (STEDT). See also ခွေ (hkwe, “to coil”).
Verb
[edit]ကွေ့ • (kwe.)
Noun
[edit]ကွေ့ • (kwe.)
Derived terms
[edit]- ကွေ့ကောက် (kwe.kauk)
- ကွေ့လည်ကြောင်ပတ် (kwe.lanykraungpat)
- ကွေ့ဝိုက် (kwe.wuik)
- ကောက်ကွေ့ (kaukkwe.)
- ဂငယ်ကွေ့ (ga.ngai-kwe.)
- ပင်လယ်ကွေ့ (panglai-kwe.)
- ပစောက်ကွေ့ (pa.caukkwe.)
Further reading
[edit]- “ကွေ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.