နိုင်
Burmese edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /nàɪɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: nuing • ALA-LC: nuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: naing • Okell: naiñ
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly Sino–Tibetan: compare Tibetan ནུས (nus, “be able to; capable; to withstand; capacity; strength; force; power; function; energy”), Chinese 能 (“can, capable of”).
Verb edit
နိုင် • (nuing)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
နိုင် • (nuing)
References edit
- “နိုင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- “နိုင်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.