မှန်ဘီလူး

Burmese

Etymology

မှန် (hman, “glass”) +‎ ဘီလူး (bhilu:, “ogre”)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မှန်ဘီ'လူး
• IPA^(key): /m̥àɴbəlú/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hmanbhilu: • ALA-LC: mhanʻbhīlūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hmanbălu: • Okell: hmañbălù

Noun

မှန်ဘီလူး • (hmanbhilu:)

1. lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
2. magnifying glass

Synonyms

• (magnifying glass): သူရကန် (sura.kan)

References

• “မှန်ဘီလူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “မှန်ဘီလူး” in Wörterbuch Burmesisch–Deutsch (VEB Verlag Enzykolopädie Leipzig 1976), by Annemarie Esche.