စေတီ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali cetiya (“memorial, pagoda”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇေဒီ
• IPA^(key): /zèdì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ceti • ALA-LC: cetī • BGN/PCGN: zedi • Okell: seiti

Noun

စေတီ • (ceti) (classifier ဆူ)

1. (Buddhism) pagoda, stupa
2. shrine, sacred depository

Derived terms

• စေတီယင်္ဂဏ (cetiyangga.na.)
• စေတီရံ (cetiram)
• စေတီရင်ပြင် (cetirangprang)
• ဓမ္မစေတီ (dhamma.ceti)
• ဓာတုစေတီ (dhatu.ceti)
• ပရိဘောဂစေတီ (pa.ri.bhau:ga.ceti)
• ပွတ်စေတီ (pwatceti)
• လွမ်းစေတီ (lwam:ceti)
• သဲပုံစေတီ (sai:pumceti)
• ဥဒ္ဒိဿစေတီ (uddi.ssa.ceti)

Further reading

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