ခွေ
Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *koj (“bend; curved; lap; bosom”); compare perhaps Old Chinese 跪 (OC *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ, “to kneel”) (STEDT). See also ကွေ့ (kwe., “to turn, veer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kʰwè/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe • ALA-LC: khve • BGN/PCGN: hkwe • Okell: hkwei
Noun
[edit]ခွေ • (hkwe)
Verb
[edit]ခွေ • (hkwe)
- to coil; curl up; sag; go limp; droop
- to make
- to mark
- (chess) to check
- to check; restrain
- to collect firewood
Classifier
[edit]ခွေ • (hkwe)
- particle used as a numerical classifier for rings or coils
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]- “ခွေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pa'o Karen
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Pronoun
[edit]ခွေ (transliteration needed)
Synonyms
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ခွေ
- နီ
Categories:
- Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Burmese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan
- Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Burmese lemmas
- Burmese nouns
- Burmese verbs
- my:Chess
- Burmese classifiers
- Pa'o Karen terms with audio pronunciation
- Pa'o Karen lemmas
- Pa'o Karen pronouns
- Pa'o Karen familiar terms
- Pa'o Karen informal terms