ဘိက္ခု

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali bhikkhu.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဘိတ်ခု
• IPA^(key): /beɪʔkʰṵ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhikhku. • ALA-LC: bhikkhu • BGN/PCGN: beikhku. • Okell: beiʔhkú

Noun

ဘိက္ခု • (bhikhku.) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

1. (Buddhism) bhikkhu

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• bhikkhu (Latin script)
• 𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• भिक्खु (Devanagari script)
• ভিক্খু (Bengali script)
• භික‍්ඛු (Sinhalese script)
• ꧤိၵ္ၶု or ꧤိၵ်ၶု (Burmese script)
• ภิกฺขุ or ภิกขุ (Thai script)
• ᨽᩥᨠ᩠ᨡᩩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຠິກ຺ຂຸ or ຠິກຂຸ (Lao script)
• ភិក្ខុ (Khmer script)
• 𑄞𑄨𑄇𑄴𑄈𑄪 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဘိက္ခု m

1. Burmese script form of bhikkhu (“beggar”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဘိက္ခု" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဘိက္ခု (bhikkhu)	ဘိက္ခဝေါ (bhikkhavo) or ဘိက္ခူ (bhikkhū)
Accusative (second)	ဘိက္ခုံ (bhikkhuṃ)	ဘိက္ခဝေါ (bhikkhavo) or ဘိက္ခူ (bhikkhū)
Instrumental (third)	ဘိက္ခုနာ (bhikkhunā)	ဘိက္ခူဟိ (bhikkhūhi) or ဘိက္ခူဘိ (bhikkhūbhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဘိက္ခုဿ (bhikkhussa) or ဘိက္ခုနော (bhikkhuno)	ဘိက္ခူနံ (bhikkhūnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဘိက္ခုသ္မာ (bhikkhusmā) or ဘိက္ခုမှာ (bhikkhumhā)	ဘိက္ခူဟိ (bhikkhūhi) or ဘိက္ခူဘိ (bhikkhūbhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဘိက္ခုဿ (bhikkhussa) or ဘိက္ခုနော (bhikkhuno)	ဘိက္ခူနံ (bhikkhūnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဘိက္ခုသ္မိံ (bhikkhusmiṃ) or ဘိက္ခုမှိ (bhikkhumhi)	ဘိက္ခူသု (bhikkhūsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဘိက္ခု (bhikkhu)	ဘိက္ခဝေ (bhikkhave) or ဘိက္ခဝေါ (bhikkhavo)