အဘ
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Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဘ (bha., “father”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respelling: အ'ဘ
- IPA(key): /ʔəba̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: a.bha. • ALA-LC: ʼabha • BGN/PCGN: ăba. • Okell: ăbá
Noun
[edit]အဘ • (a.bha.)
- (formal) father
- term of endearment for a man who is about the same age as one's father
- (regional, Danu) Synonym of အဖေ (a.hpe, “father”)[1]
References
[edit]- ^ ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science[1] (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022
Further reading
[edit]- “အဘ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.