ဇီး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zí/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ji: • ALA-LC: jīʺ • BGN/PCGN: zi: • Okell: zì

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali jīva (“life”). Doublet of ဇီဝ (jiwa.).

Noun

ဇီး • (ji:)

1. fetus (of an animal)
2. pregnancy (of an animal)

Derived terms

• ဇီးကပ် (ji:kap)
• ဇီးလျှော (ji:hlyau:)

 

Etymology 2

Noun

ဇီး • (ji:)

1. Misspelling of ဆီး (hci:).

References

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