ဘွဲ့
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Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Descended from the voiced pronunciation of Burmese ဖွဲ့ (hpwai.).[1] Cognate with Chinese 瓦.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bwɛ̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: bhwai. • ALA-LC: bhvaiʹ • BGN/PCGN: bwè. • Okell: bwé
Noun
[edit]ဘွဲ့ • (bhwai.)
- (Buddhism) Dharma name for Buddhist monks upon attaining monkhood
- academic degree
- title or award conferred for distinguished service
- genre of Burmese classical music; see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)
Derived terms
[edit]- ပထမဘွဲ့ (pa.hta.ma.bhwai.)
- ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.)
- မဟာဘွဲ့ (ma.habhwai.)
- မဟာဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (ma.hawijjabhwai.)
- မဟာသိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (ma.hasippambhwai.)
- ဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (wijjabhwai.)
- သိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (sippambhwai.)
Descendants
[edit]- → Shan: ၽွႆႉ (phâ̰ui)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ဘွဲ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.