ငရဲ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali niraya.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: င'ရဲ
  • IPA(key): /ŋəjɛ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nga.rai: • ALA-LC: ṅarai • BGN/PCGN: ngăyè: • Okell: ngăyè

Noun

ငရဲ • (nga.rai:)

  1. (Burmese cosmology) place where sinners are punished in afterlife (believed to consist of three main categories - principal purgatories, minor hells, and the Lokandarika hell)
  2. (religion) hell; Hades; purgatory

Derived terms

  • ငရဲကျ (nga.rai:kya.)
  • ငရဲကြီး (nga.rai:kri:)
  • ငရဲခံ (nga.rai:hkam)
  • ငရဲငအုံ (nga.rai:nga.um)
  • ငရဲမင်း (nga.rai:mang:)
  • ငရဲမီး (nga.rai:mi:)
  • ငရဲသစ်ငုတ် (nga.rai:sacngut)
  • ငရဲသား (nga.rai:sa:)
  • ငရဲအိုး (nga.rai:ui:)
  • လောကငရဲ (lau:ka.nga.rai:)

Descendants

  • → Shan: ငရၢႆး (ngǎ ráai), ငလၢႆး (ngǎ láai)

Further reading

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