အရေ

See also: အရိုး and အရား

Burmese

Etymology

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ရေ (re, “skin”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အ'ရေ
• IPA^(key): /ʔəjè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.re • ALA-LC: ʼare • BGN/PCGN: ăye • Okell: ăyei

Noun

အရေ • (a.re)

1. skin (outer covering of the body), hide, pelt

Derived terms

• ဘုရားအရေတော် (bhu.ra:a.retau)
• အရိုးပေါ်အရေတင် (a.rui:paua.retang)
• အရေခြုံ (a.rehkrum)
• အရေဆုတ် (a.rehcut)
• အရေထူ (a.rehtu)
• အရေပြား (a.re-pra:)
• အရေလဲ (a.relai:)
• အသားအရေ (a.sa:a.re)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• are (Latin script)
• 𑀅𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• अरे (Devanagari script)
• অরে (Bengali script)
• අරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဢရေ (Burmese script)
• อเร or อะเร (Thai script)
• ᩋᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອເຣ or ອະເຣ (Lao script)
• អរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Interjection

အရေ (are)

1. Burmese script form of are (“wow”)