မှောင်ခိုဈေး

Burmese

Etymology

မှောင်ခို (hmaunghkui, “hide in the dark”) +‎ ဈေး (jhe:, “market”), calque of English black market.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m̥àʊɴkʰòzé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hmaunghkuijhe: • ALA-LC: mhoṅʻkhuijheʺ • BGN/PCGN: hmaunghkoze: • Okell: hmauñhkouzeì

Noun

မှောင်ခိုဈေး • (hmaunghkuijhe:)

1. black market

Further reading

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