မေးစေ့

Burmese

မေးစေ့

Etymology

မေး (me:, “lower jaw”) +‎ စေ့ (ce., “protuberance”)

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: မေးဇိ
  • IPA(key): /mézḭ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: me:ce. • ALA-LC: me″ce′ • BGN/PCGN: me:zi. • Okell: meìsí

Noun

မေးစေ့ • (me:ce.)

  1. chin (bottom of a face)

References

  • “မေးစေ့” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 765.
  • “မေးစေ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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