မီးခံသေတ္တာ

Burmese

Etymology

မီး (mi:, “fire”) +‎ ခံ (hkam, “to resist, endure”) +‎ သေတ္တာ (setta, “box”), literally “fire-resistant box”.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မီးဂံသစ်တာ
• IPA^(key): /míɡàɴθɪʔtà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mi:hkamsetta • ALA-LC: mīʺkhaṃsettā • BGN/PCGN: mi:ganthitta • Okell: mìhkañthiʔta

Noun

မီးခံသေတ္တာ • (mi:hkamsetta)

1. safe; strongbox

Synonyms

• အာမခံသေတ္တာ (ama.hkamsetta)

Further reading

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