ဇနီး

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit जनी (janī, “bride, daughter-in-law”), perhaps via Hindi.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇ'နီး
• IPA^(key): /zəní/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ja.ni: • ALA-LC: janīʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăni: • Okell: zănì

Noun

ဇနီး • (ja.ni:)

1. (formal) wife

Derived terms

• ဇနီးမောင်နှံ (ja.ni:maunghnam, “husband and wife; a married couple”)
• ဇနီးသည် (ja.ni:sany, “wife”)

 

Further reading

• “ဇနီး” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 424.
• “ဇနီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.