ခွေး

Burmese
ခွေး

Etymology

From Old Burmese ခုယ်း (khuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, “dog”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe: • ALA-LC: khve″ • BGN/PCGN: hkwe: • Okell: hkweì

Noun

ခွေး • (hkwe:)

  1. dog

Derived terms
  • ခွေးကလေး (hkwe:ka.le:, “puppy”)
  • ခွေးဘီလူး (hkwe:bhilu:, “bulldog; mastiff”)
  • ခွေးမ (hkwe:ma., “bitch”)
  • ခွေးသမင် (hkwe:sa.mang, “greyhound”)
  • ခွေးအိမ် (hkwe:im, “kennel, doghouse”)

References
  • Nishi, Y. (1999). Old Burmese: toward the history of Burmese. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 23(3), 659-692.
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