ခွေ

Burmese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *koj (“bend; curved; lap; bosom”); compare perhaps Old Chinese 跪 (OC *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ, “to kneel”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰwè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe • ALA-LC: khve • BGN/PCGN: hkwe • Okell: hkwei

Noun

ခွေ • (hkwe)

1. hoop; coil; ring

Verb

ခွေ • (hkwe)

1. to coil; curl up; sag; go limp; droop
2. to make
3. to mark
4. (chess) to check
5. to check; restrain
6. to collect firewood

Classifier

ခွေ • (hkwe)

1. particle used as a numerical classifier for rings or coils

Derived terms

• ကြိုးခွေ (krui:hkwe)
• ခွေယိုင် (hkweyuing)
• တင်ပျဉ်ခွေ (tangpyanyhkwe)
• တိပ်ခွေ (tiphkwe)
• ထင်းခွေ (htang:hkwe)
• ထင်းခွေရေခပ် (htang:hkwerehkap)
• နန်းဖျားခွေ (nan:hpya:hkwe)
• နန်းရင်းခွေ (nan:rang:hkwe)
• ပန်းခွေ (pan:hkwe)
• ရစ်ခွေ (rachkwe)
• သံခွေ (samhkwe)
• သင်းခွေ (sang:hkwe)
• သင်းခွေချပ် (sang:hkwehkyap)
• သဇင်ခွေ (sa.janghkwe)
• သာခွေယိုင် (sahkweyuing)
• သေခွေ (sehkwe)

 

Further reading

• “ခွေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pa'o Karen

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

ခွေ (transliteration needed)

1. (familiar, informal) I, me

Synonyms

• ခွေ (fairly polite)
• ခွေသွဉ်း (formal polite, used by males)
• ခွေသွဉ်း (colloquial polite, used by males)
• ခွေသွဉ်းမူႏ (formal polite, used by females)
• သွဉ်းမူႏ (colloquial polite, used by females)

Derived terms

• ခွေ
• နီ