တာဝန်ခံအဖွဲ့

Burmese edit

Etymology edit

တာဝန် (tawan) +‎ ခံ (hkam) +‎ အဖွဲ့ (a.hpwai., body)

Pronunciation edit

  • Phonetic respelling: တာဝန်ခံအ'ဖွဲ့
  • IPA(key): /tàwʊ̀ɴkʰàɴʔəpʰwɛ̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: tawanhkam-a.hpwai. • ALA-LC: tāvanʻkhaṃʼaphvaiʹ • BGN/PCGN: tawunhkanăhpwè. • Okell: tawuñhkañăhpwé

Noun edit

တာဝန်ခံအဖွဲ့ (tawanhkam-a.hpwai.)

  1. (historical) cabinet

Usage notes edit

Replaced ဝန်ကြီးအဖွဲ့ (wankri:a.hpwai.) in Burma from 1962 to 1988, during the socialist period due to the association of ဝန်ကြီး (wankri:) with feudalism