ဘွဲ့

Burmese

Etymology

Benedict, as listed by STEDT, tentatively considers the word to be borrowed from Mon (bhwaiʼ "honorary title ( < Mon ? ) ( cf. brâi )"). Other theories take the word as a voiced derivative of Burmese ဖွဲ့ (hpwai., “to tie or twist into a string; to form a union, compose a song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwɛ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhwai. • ALA-LC: bhvaiʹ • BGN/PCGN: bwè. • Okell: bwé

Noun

ဘွဲ့ • (bhwai.)

1. title or award conferred for distinguished service, valor, etc.
2. (Buddhism) Dharma name for Buddhist monks upon attaining monkhood
3. academic degree conferred by an officially recognized academic body
4. genre of Burmese classical music celebrating a particular theme (see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.))

Derived terms

• ဇာတ်ကြီးဆယ်ဘွဲ့ (jatkri:hcaibhwai.)
• ပထမဘွဲ့ (pa.hta.ma.bhwai.)
• ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.)
• ဘွဲ့ကြိုသင်တန်း (bhwai.kruisangtan:)
• ဘွဲ့နှင်းသဘင် (bhwai.hnang:sa.bhang)
• ဘွဲ့ဖြူလက်နက် (bhwai.hprulaknak)
• ဘွဲ့ရ (bhwai.ra.)
• ဘွဲ့လွန်သင်တန်း (bhwai.lwansangtan:)
• မယ်ဘွဲ့ (maibhwai.)
• မဟာဘွဲ့ (ma.habhwai.)
• မဟာဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (ma.hawijjabhwai.)
• မဟာသိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (ma.hasippambhwai.)
• မောင်ဘွဲ့ (maungbhwai.)
• ဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (wijjabhwai.)
• သိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (sippambhwai.)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: ၽွႆႉ (phâ̰ui)

Further reading

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