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နှစ်

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Burmese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /n̥ɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hnac • ALA-LC: nhacʻ • BGN/PCGN: hnit • Okell: hniʔ

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ː)ŋ ~ s-nik (year; harvest). Cognate with S'gaw Karen နံၣ် (neè).

Noun

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နှစ် (hnac)

  1. year
Derived terms
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See also

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Etymology 2

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Burmese numbers (edit)
20
 ←  1
2
3  → 
    Cardinal: နှစ် (hnac)
    Ordinal: ဒုတိယ (du.ti.ya.)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခံ (khee), Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Nuosu (nyip), Atong (India) ni.

Numeral

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နှစ် (hnac) (digit )

  1. two
Synonyms
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Etymology 3

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Causative of နစ် (nac, to sink, drown).

Verb

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Burmese verb set
Base နစ် (nac)
Causativeနှစ် (hnac)

နှစ် (hnac)

  1. to immerse, dip
  2. (figuratively) to demean oneself or degrade others
  3. (figuratively) to sacrifice
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Further reading

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Rakhine

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Rakhine cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : နှစ်
    Ordinal : ဒုတိယ

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ː)ŋ ~ s-nik. Cognate with Burmese နှစ် (hnac), S'gaw Karen နံၣ် (neè).


Numeral

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နှစ် (transliteration needed)

  1. two