ကျေးဇူး

Burmese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Burmese က္လဉ်ဇော (klañjo). Said by the Myanmar–English Dictionary to be borrowed from Pali kataññutā (gratitude), from Sanskrit कृतज्ञता (kṛtajñatā, gratitude), but this seems phonologically unlikely.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕézú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kye:ju: • ALA-LC: kyeʺjūʺ • BGN/PCGN: kye:zu: • Okell: ceìzù

Noun

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ကျေးဇူး (kye:ju:)

  1. gratitude

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • ကျေးဇူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • 1999 March 15, 義郎 西, ヨシオ ニシ, Yoshio Nishi, “Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese”, in 国立民族学博物館研究報告[1], volume 23, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 659–692: