ခွေ
Burmese
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *koj (“bend; curved; lap; bosom”); compare perhaps Old Chinese 跪 (OC *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ, “to kneel”) (STEDT). See also ကွေ့ (kwe., “to turn, veer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰwè/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hkwe • ALA-LC: khve • BGN/PCGN: hkwe • Okell: hkwei
Noun
ခွေ • (hkwe)
Verb
ခွေ • (hkwe)
- to coil; curl up; sag; go limp; droop
- to make
- to mark
- (chess) to check
- to check; restrain
- to collect firewood
Classifier
ခွေ • (hkwe)
- particle used as a numerical classifier for rings or coils
Derived terms
- ကြိုးခွေ (krui:hkwe)
- ခွေယိုင် (hkweyuing)
- တင်ပျဉ်ခွေ (tangpyanyhkwe)
- တိပ်ခွေ (tiphkwe)
- ထင်းခွေ (htang:hkwe)
- ထင်းခွေရေခပ် (htang:hkwerehkap)
- နန်းဖျားခွေ (nan:hpya:hkwe)
- နန်းရင်းခွေ (nan:rang:hkwe)
- ပန်းခွေ (pan:hkwe)
- ရစ်ခွေ (rachkwe)
- သံခွေ (samhkwe)
- သင်းခွေ (sang:hkwe)
- သင်းခွေချပ် (sang:hkwehkyap)
- သဇင်ခွေ (sa.janghkwe)
- သာခွေယိုင် (sahkweyuing)
- သေခွေ (sehkwe)
Further reading
- “ခွေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pa'o Karen
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Pronoun
ခွေ (transliteration needed)
Synonyms
- ခွေ (fairly polite)
- ခွေသွဉ်း (formal polite, used by males)
- ခွေသွဉ်း (colloquial polite, used by males)
- ခွေသွဉ်းမူႏ (formal polite, used by females)
- သွဉ်းမူႏ (colloquial polite, used by females)
Derived terms
- ခွေ
- နီ