ဘွဲ့
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.