ခၣ်

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S'gaw Karen

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ခၣ်

ခိၣ်တိသၣ်

မဲာ်တူၢ်

မဲာ်ဆူၣ်

မဲာ်ချံ

နါစ့ၤ

နါစ့ၤပူၤ

ဘိးပၤ

ခၣ်

ကိာ်ယူၤ

နိးဖံး

ခၣ်စိးနါ

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အနီၢ်ခိ

အနီၢ်ခိ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰà/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *kaᴮ (“chin; jaw”). Cognate with Western Pwo ခၪ, Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤧ꤬ (hkàe).

Noun

ခၣ် • (khà)

1. a chin; the part of the face that is under the mouth.
2. (lower) jaw; the bone around the mouth that holds the teeth.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Karen *khaᴮ (“bitter”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ka-(n/m/ŋ) (“bitter; bile; liver”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ခး, Western Pwo ခၪ, Western Kayah ꤋꤢꤧ꤬ (hkàe).

Adjective

ခၣ် • (khà)

1. bitter; not sweet.

See also

Basic tastes in S'gaw Karen (layout · text)
အဆၢ (ʼa hsuh)	အဆံၣ် (ʼa hseè)	အဟီ (ʼa haw)	အခၣ် (ʼa khà)	အဟဲ (ʼa heh)	အရီၢ် (ʼa raw̱) / အဝံၣ် (ʼa weè)