ခွေး

Burmese

ခွေး

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n. Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, “dog”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe: • ALA-LC: khve″ • BGN/PCGN: hkwe: • Okell: hkweì

Noun

ခွေး • (hkwe:)

  1. dog

Derived terms

  • ခွေးကလေး (hkwe:ka.le:, “puppy”)
  • ခွေးဘီလူး (hkwe:bhilu:, “bulldog; mastiff”)
  • ခွေးမ (hkwe:ma., “bitch”)
  • ခွေးသမင် (hkwe:sa.mang, “greyhound”)
  • ခွေးအိမ် (hkwe:im, “kennel, doghouse”)
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