နွေး

See also: နှေး and နွေ

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nwe (“warm, hot”), an allofam of *C-n(w)an ~ *C-n(w)at (“to burn, light (a fire); hot”). Cognates include Lashi ngé (“hot”), Old Chinese 熱 (OC *ŋjed, “id”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: nwe: • ALA-LC: nveʺ • BGN/PCGN: nwe: • Okell: nweì

Adjective

နွေး • (nwe:)

1. warm, tepid, lukewarm

Synonyms

• ပူ (pu)

Derived terms

• ကြက်သီးနွေး (kraksi:nwe:)
• နွေးနွေးထွေးထွေး (nwe:nwe:htwe:htwe:)
• ပူပူနွေးနွေး (pupu-nwe:nwe:)
• ရေနွေး (re-nwe:)
• သွေးနွေးသတ္တဝါ (swe:nwe:satta.wa)

 

Further reading

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