မီးခတ်

Burmese

Etymology

မီး (mi:, “fire”) +‎ ခတ် (hkat, “to beat; to strike”).

Pronunciation 1

• Phonetic respelling: မီးဂတ်
• IPA^(key): /míɡaʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mi:hkat • ALA-LC: mīʺkhatʻ • BGN/PCGN: mi:gat • Okell: mìhkaʔ

Noun

မီးခတ် • (mi:hkat)

1. tinderbox

Pronunciation 2

• Phonetic respelling: မီးခတ်
• IPA^(key): /míkʰaʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mi:hkat • ALA-LC: mīʺkhatʻ • BGN/PCGN: mi:hkat • Okell: mìhkaʔ

Verb

မီးခတ် • (mi:hkat)

1. to strike steel against flint

References

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