ကော်ဖီ

Burmese

ကော်ဖီ

Etymology

Borrowed from English coffee, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ̀pʰì/

Romanization: MLCTS: kauhpi • ALA-LC: ko‘phī • BGN/PCGN: kawhpi • Okell: kohpi

Noun

ကော်ဖီ • (kauhpi)

coffee

References

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

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