စရိတ်

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ရိတ်
  • IPA(key): /zəjeɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ca.rit • ALA-LC: caritʻ • BGN/PCGN: zăyeik • Okell: săyeiʔ

Etymology 1

Noun

စရိတ် • (ca.rit)

  1. cost, expense, allowance
    Synonym: စရိတ်စက (ca.ritca.ka.)
Derived terms
  • ကုန်ကျစရိတ် (kunkya.ca.rit)
  • ခရီးစရိတ် (hka.ri:ca.rit)
  • စရိတ်ခံ (ca.rithkam)
  • စရိတ်ငြိမ်း (ca.ritngrim:)
  • စရိတ်စက (ca.ritca.ka.)
  • စားစရိတ် (ca:ca.rit)
  • ပင်ထောင်စရိတ် (panghtaungca.rit)
  • ရှားပါးစရိတ် (hra:pa:ca.rit)
  • အသုံးစရိတ် (a.sum:ca.rit)
  • အိမ်သုံးစရိတ် (imsum:ca.rit)

Etymology 2

Tentatively taken by MED to be a borrowing from English grape, though the phonetic shifts required are non-trivial, even for a language with high phonological erosion in its borrowings like Burmese.

Noun

စရိတ် • (ca.rit)

  1. shot (small metal balls for ammunition), small shot or pellets in a shotgun cartridge

Further reading

  • “စရိတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • “စရိတ်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 359.
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