ဘွဲ့

Burmese

Etymology

Descended from the voiced pronunciation of Burmese ဖွဲ့ (hpwai.). Cognate with Chinese 瓦.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwɛ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhwai. • ALA-LC: bhvaiʹ • BGN/PCGN: bwè. • Okell: bwé

Noun

ဘွဲ့ • (bhwai.)

1. (Buddhism) Dharma name for Buddhist monks upon attaining monkhood
2. academic degree
3. title or award conferred for distinguished service
4. genre of Burmese classical music; see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)

Derived terms

• ပထမဘွဲ့ (pa.hta.ma.bhwai.)
• ပါရဂူဘွဲ့ (para.gubhwai.)
• မဟာဘွဲ့ (ma.habhwai.)
• မဟာဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (ma.hawijjabhwai.)
• မဟာသိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (ma.hasippambhwai.)
• ဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (wijjabhwai.)
• သိပ္ပံဘွဲ့ (sippambhwai.)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: ၽွႆႉ (phâ̰ui)

Further reading

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