ထေရ်

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali thera

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ထေ
• IPA^(key): /tʰè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hter • ALA-LC: therʻ • BGN/PCGN: hte • Okell: htei

Noun

ထေရ် • (hter)

1. Buddhist monk of venerable standing

Coordinate terms

• ထေရီ (hteri)

Derived terms

• ထေရ်ကြီးဝါကြီး (hterkri:wa-kri:)
• မဇ္ဇိမထေရ် (majji.ma.hter)
• မဟာထေရ် (ma.hahter)

 

References

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