ကုဗ္ဘီး

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit कव्य (kavya).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ကုတ်ဗီး
• IPA^(key): /koʊʔbí/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kubbhi: • ALA-LC: kubbhīʺ • BGN/PCGN: kokbi: • Okell: kouʔbì

Noun

ကုဗ္ဘီး • (kubbhi:)

1. food offering to a celestial being
2. food offering to a deceased person
3. post in the northwest corner of a house

Synonyms

• မတကဘတ် (ma.ta.ka.bhat)

Derived terms

• ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင် (kubbhi:tuing)

 

References

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