ကေ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kè/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ke • ALA-LC: ke • BGN/PCGN: ke • Okell: kei

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali kesa (“hair of the head”). Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa).

Noun

ကေ • (ke)

  1. hair
Derived terms

Proper noun

ကေ • (ke)

  1. a female given name from Pali

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English kay.

Noun

ကေ • (ke)

  1. the Latin letter K/k

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • ke (Latin script)
  • 𑀓𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • के (Devanagari script)
  • কে (Bengali script)
  • කෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • ၵေ (Burmese script)
  • เก (Thai script)
  • ᨠᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ເກ (Lao script)
  • កេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄇𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ကေ

  1. Burmese script form of ke, which is nominative/accusative plural of က (ka, “who (m.)”)

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *keᴬ (“tiger”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *khe⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(e/ə)j (“tiger”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခ့ (khay).

Pronunciation

  • (Northern & Southern Pa'o) IPA(key): /ke̤³¹/

Noun

ကေ (transliteration needed)

  1. tiger
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