ရှေ့

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See also: ရေး, ရေ, and ရွှေ

Burmese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Burmese ရှိယ့် (hriy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-rəy (front). Cognate with Northern Pumi [script needed] (rə³⁵ be⁵³, front) (STEDT: hre¹ "front").

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃḛ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hre. • ALA-LC: rheʹ • BGN/PCGN: she. • Okell: hyeí

Noun

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ရှေ့ (hre.)

  1. front
  2. presence
  3. somewhere further on
  4. future, hereafter

Derived terms

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Adjective

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ရှေ့ (hre.)

  1. fore, front
  2. next, coming

Postposition

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ရှေ့ (hre.)

  1. in front of

Further reading

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  • ရှေ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.