ပဉ္စသီလ

Burmese

Etymology

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) +‎ သီလ (sila., “morals, virtues”). Learned borrowing from Pali pañcasīla, Sanskrit पञ्चशील (pañcaśīla).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ပျင်စသီလ
• IPA^(key): /pjɪ̀ɴsa̰θìla̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: panyca.sila. • ALA-LC: pañcasīla • BGN/PCGN: pyinsa.thila. • Okell: pyiñsáthilá

Noun

ပဉ္စသီလ • (panyca.sila.)

1. (Buddhism) Five Precepts

Synonyms

• ငါးပါးသီလ (nga:pa:sila.)
• နိစ္စသီလ (nicca.sila.)

References

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