မြေခွေး

Burmese

Etymology

မြေ (mre, “soil, earth”) +‎ ခွေး (hkwe:, “dog”)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မြေဂွေး
• IPA^(key): /mjèɡwé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mrehkwe: • ALA-LC: mrekhveʺ • BGN/PCGN: myegwe: • Okell: myeihkweì

Noun

မြေခွေး • (mrehkwe:)

1. fox
2. male cricket

See also

• (canids) ခွေးမျိုးရင်း (hkwe:myui:rang:); ဝံပုလွေငယ် (wampu.lwe-ngai, “coyote”), ခွေး (hkwe:, “dog”), မြေခွေး (mrehkwe:, “fox”), ခွေးအ (hkwe:a., “jackal”), ဝံပုလွေ (wampu.lwe, “wolf”) ^{(Category: my:Canids)}

Further reading

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