တေး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /té/
• Romanization: MLCTS: te: • ALA-LC: teʺ • BGN/PCGN: te: • Okell: teì

Etymology 1

Verb

တေး • (te:)

1. to chalk up a grievance
2. to make a mental note
3. to jot down

Derived terms

• ညာတာပါတေး (nyatapate:)
• ရေးတေးတေး (re:te:te:)
• လျှပ်တေး (hlyapte:)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tê "song"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

တေး • (te:)

1. (music) song

Derived terms

• စတီရီယိုတေးစီးရီး (ca.tiriyuite:ci:ri:)
• တေးစီးရီး (te:ci:ri:)
• တေးထပ် (te:htap)
• တေးဖွဲ့ (te:hpwai.)
• တေးရေး (te:re:)
• တေးသံရှင် (te:samhrang)
• တေးသွား (te:swa:)
• တေးသီချင်း (te:sihkyang:)

Further reading

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