လှည့်

See also: လှည်း, လှဲ, လည်း, and လည်

Burmese

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Seems related to လည် (lany, “to turn around”) somehow, perhaps a causative formation, as suggested by STEDT (hlɑȵ¹ "turn (cause to)"), and doesn't seem to be mentioned by Luce 1981.”

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: လှဲ့
IPA^(key): /l̥ɛ̰/
Romanization: MLCTS: hlany. • ALA-LC: lhaññʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: hlè. • Okell: hlé

Verb

လှည့် • (hlany.)

(intransitive) to turn (move around an axis through itself), go or move around something, spin
(transitive) to turn (change the direction or orientation of)
to go from place to place, make the rounds
to deceive
to borrow something (on a short term)
(same as လူပျိုလှည့် (lu-pyuihlany.)) to pay court to, go a courting

Derived terms

ကံ့ကူလက်လှည့်ဆရာ (kam.kulakhlany.hca.ra)
ကင်းလှည့် (kang:hlany.)
ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသည် (kambhahlany.hka.ri:sany)
ကျွေးတုံ့ကျွေးလှည့် (kywe:tum.kywe:hlany.)
ကျောက်လှည့် (kyaukhlany.)
ချက်လှည့်ခံ (hkyakhlany.hkam)
ချာခနဲလှည့် (hkyahka.nai:hlany.)
ခရီးလှည့် (hka.ri:hlany.)
ခြေဦးလှည့် (hkreu:hlany.)
ခါးလှည့် (hka:hlany.)
ခေါင်းပန်းလှည့် (hkaung:pan:hlany.)
ငွေလှည့် (ngwehlany.)
တစ်ဖက်လှည့် (tachpakhlany.)
တစ်ယောက်တစ်လှည့် (tacyauktachlany.)
တိုင်းခန်းလှည့် (tuing:hkan:hlany.)
နဂါးလှည့် (na.ga:hlany.)
နယ်လှည့် (naihlany.)
နားလှည့် (na:hlany.)
နားလှည့်ပါးလှည့် (na:hlany.pa:hlany.)
နေလှည့်ပင် (nehlany.pang)
ဗွေလှည့် (bwehlany.)
မျက်လှည့် (myakhlany.)
မြှုံးသားလှည့် (hmrum:sa:hlany.)
မြားဦးလှည့် (mra:u:hlany.)
ရှင်လောင်းလှည့် (hranglaung:hlany.)
ရေလှည့်သင့် (rehlany.sang.)
လက်လှည့် (lakhlany.)
လက်လှည့်သင့် (lakhlany.sang.)
လက်လှည့်သုံး (lakhlany.sum:)
လှည့်ကင်း (hlany.kang:)
လှည့်ကွက် (hlany.kwak)
လှည့်စား (hlany.ca:)
လှည့်ပတ် (hlany.pat)
လှည့်ဖြား (hlany.hpra:)
လှည့်လည် (hlany.lany)
လူပျိုလှည့် (lu-pyuihlany.)
လေးစပ်လှည့် (le:caphlany.)
လေလှည့် (lehlany.)
ဝက်အူလှည့် (wak-uhlany.)

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