ဘဲ

See also: ဘ, ဘီး, ဘာ, ဘူး, ဘှ့ၣ်, ဘု, and ဘီ

Burmese

ဘဲ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *bay, from an areal Southeast Asian word; see Old Chinese 鴄 (OC *pʰid, “duck”) for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhai: • ALA-LC: bhai • BGN/PCGN: bè: • Okell: bè

Noun

ဘဲ • (bhai:) (classifier ကောင်)

1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
2. (slang) boyfriend
3. ploughshare shaped like a duckbill

Derived terms

• ငါးဘဲဖြူ (nga:bhai:hpru)
• တောဘဲ (tau:bhai:)
• ဘဲငန်း (bhai:ngan:)
• ဘဲစားဘဲချေ (bhai:ca:bhai:hkye)
• ဘဲတောင် (bhai:taung)
• ဘဲနှုတ်သီး (bhai:hnutsi:)
• ဘဲမြီး (bhai:mri:)
• ဘဲလိပ် (bhai:lip)
• ဘဲဥ (bhai:u.)
• ဘဲဥပုံ (bhai:u.pum)
• ဘဲဥအိုး (bhai:u.ui:)

 

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• ပဲ (pai:) — rare

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: ဗဲ, ဖဲ
• IPA^(key): /bɛ́/, /pʰɛ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhai: • ALA-LC: bhai • BGN/PCGN: bè:/hpè: • Okell: hpè/hpè

Postposition

ဘဲ • (bhai:)

1. without (not doing or not having done something)

   ထီး မပါဘဲ ဘယ်တော့မှ မသွားပါဘူး

   hti: ma.pabhai: bhaitau.hma. ma.swa:pabhu:

   He never leaves without taking his umbrella.

Etymology 3

Noun

ဘဲ • (bhai:)

1. great grandfather's great grandfather, six generations removed from oneself

Derived terms

• ဘဲမ (bhai:ma.)

 

See also

• (kinship generations) မျိုးဆက် (myui:hcak); ဘော (bhau:), ဘဲ (bhai:), ဘင် (bhang), ဘီ (bhi), ဘေး (bhe:), ဘိုး (bhui:), ဘ (bha.), သား (sa:), မြေး (mre:), မြစ် (mrac), တီ (ti), တွတ် (twat) / မျှော့ (hmyau.), ကျွတ် (kywat), ဆက် (hcak), ^{(Category: my:Family)}

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not mentioned in MED, and apparently not in STEDT either. Related to Etymology 2 "without" somehow?”)

Alternative forms

• ပဲ (pai:) — rare

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: ဗဲ, ဖဲ
• IPA^(key): /bɛ́/, /pʰɛ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhai: • ALA-LC: bhai • BGN/PCGN: bè:/hpè: • Okell: hpè/hpè

Particle

ဘဲ • (bhai:)

1. Used after any sentence element or an entire sentence to add emphasis, indeed, really

   ဒီမှာဘဲ နေရ်ခဲ့

   dihmabhai: nerhkai.

   Stay right here!

   ခင်ဗျာ့သူငယ်ချင်းဘဲ ရေးတာလား

   hkangbya.su-ngaihkyang:bhai: re:tala:

   Was it your friend who wrote it?

   သိတာပေါ့ ကျွန်တော့် ညီတဝမ်းကွဲဘဲ

   si.tapau. kywantau. nyita.wam:kwai:bhai:

   Of course I know him, he’s my cousin!

Further reading

• “ဘဲ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• Okell, John (1969) A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese, London: Oxford University Press, pages 294–97

Mon

Etymology

From Pali bhaya, from Sanskrit भय (bhaya).

Noun

ဘဲ (phòa)

1. calamity