ပီ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pi • ALA-LC: pī • BGN/PCGN: pi • Okell: pi

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pee.

Noun

ပီ • (pi)

1. the Latin letter P/p

Etymology 2

Verb

ပီ • (pi)

1. to be up to the mark
2. (of speech) to be distinct, clear, accurate, well-pronounced

Derived terms

• ပီပီ (pipi)
• ပီပီပြင်ပြင် (pipi-prangprang)
• ပီပီသား (pipisa:)
• ပီသ (pisa.)
• မပီကလာပီကလာ (ma.pika.lapika.la)

Further reading

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

Khamti

Etymology

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *piːᴮ¹ (“flute”). Cognate with Thai ปี่ (bpìi), Lao ປີ່ (pī), Northern Thai ᨸᩦ᩵, Khün ᨸᩦ᩵, Lü ᦔᦲᧈ (ṗii¹), Shan ပီႇ (pìi), Tai Dam ꪜꪲ꪿, Tai Nüa ᥙᥤᥱ (pǐ), Phake ပီ (pī), Ahom 𑜆𑜣 (pī).

Noun

ပ︀ီ (transliteration needed)

1. flute.

Phake

Etymology 1

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *piːᴬ¹ (“year”), from Proto-Tai *piːᴬ (“year”).

Noun

ပ︀ီ (pii)

1. year

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *pliːᴬ (“banana blossom”).

Noun

ပ︀ီ (pii)

1. banana blossom

Etymology 3

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *piːᴮ¹ (“flute”). Cognate with Thai ปี่ (bpìi), Lao ປີ່ (pī), Northern Thai ᨸᩦ᩵, Khün ᨸᩦ᩵, Lü ᦔᦲᧈ (ṗii¹), Shan ပီႇ (pìi), Tai Dam ꪜꪲ꪿, Tai Nüa ᥙᥤᥱ (pǐ), Ahom 𑜆𑜣 (pī).

Noun

ပ︀ီ (pii)

1. flute

Etymology 4

Compare Chinese 筆／笔 (bǐ). Cognate with Shan ပီ (pǐi, “writing brush”).

Noun

ပ︀ီ (pii)

1. pen, pencil

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piː˨˦/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Southwestern Tai *piːᴬ¹ (“year”), from Proto-Tai *piːᴬ (“year”). Cognate with Thai ปี (bpii), Northern Thai ᨸᩦ, Lao ປີ (pī), Lü ᦔᦲ (ṗii), Tai Nüa ᥙᥤ (pi), Phake ပီ (pī), Ahom 𑜆𑜣 (pī), Zhuang bi, Bouyei bil.

Noun

ပီ • (pǐi)

1. year.

   Synonym: ပီႊ (pi᷈i)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *pliːᴬ (“banana blossom”). Cognate with Thai ปลี (bplii), Northern Thai ᨸᩖᩦ, Lao ປີ (pī), Phake ပီ (pī).

Noun

ပီ • (pǐi)

1. banana blossom.

Etymology 3

Compare Chinese 筆／笔 (bǐ). Cognate with Phake ပီ (pī, “pen; pencil”).

Noun

ပီ • (pǐi)

1. writing brush; small painting brush.