Burmese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Phonetic respelling: ခ'လေး
  • IPA(key): /kʰəlé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ka.le: • ALA-LC: kaleʺ • BGN/PCGN: hkăle: • Okell: hkăleì

Noun edit

ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. child (son or daughter; minor)
  2. young son and daughter.
  3. a young man.
  4. a person who is not yet of age.
  5. behaving in a way that is not worthy of dignity.

Adjective edit

ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. small, underage (baby butterfly).

Classifier edit

ကလေး (ka.le:)

  1. to lighten the depth, to be polite, a word that helps to make a pleasant impression (boo boo baby, stubborn boy, he is a child, a child of fire).

Derived terms edit