ခင်

See also: ခေါင်း, ချင်း, ချောင်း, and ချင်

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɪ̀ɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkang • ALA-LC: khaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkin • Okell: hkiñ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *kaŋ (“father, grandfather, honorific”). See also Old Chinese 翁 (OC *qloːŋ, “old man”) and 公 (OC *kloːŋ, “duke, high-ranked male”) for further discussion of possible cognates.

Proper noun

ခင် • (hkang)

1. a unisex given name

Etymology 2

Verb

ခင် • (hkang)

1. to be loving, to be friendly.

Noun

ခင် • (hkang)

1. across the bleak land.

Verb

ခင် • (hkang)

1. to favorable, to ready (used in conjunction with မ (ma.)).

Classifier

ခင် • (hkang)

1. a word that indicates that it has been done in advance.
2. when used in conjunction with a verb with the မ (ma.) prefix, not yet, a word that indicates not yet (before do, before eat).

Classifier

ခင် • (hkang)

1. a word used in counting cotton.

Noun

ခင် • (hkang)

1. a stringed instrument such as a harp.

Mon

Noun

ခင် (khaṅ)

1. Alternative form of ခၚ်

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *khaŋᴮ (“leg”). (Luangthongkum, 2019) Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခီၣ် (khaẁ), Western Pwo ခၪ့.

Pronunciation

• (Northern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /kʰaŋ⁵⁵/
• (Southern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /kʰaŋ³³/

Noun

ခင် (transliteration needed)

1. leg.
2. foot.