ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး

Burmese

Etymology

ဆန် (hcan, “uncooked rice”) +‎ ကုန် (kun, “to run out of, waste”) +‎ မြေ (mre, “ground”) +‎ လေး (le:, “heavy”), literally “a rice-wasting earth-burdening (thing)”.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဆန်ဂုန်မြေလေး
  • IPA(key): /sʰàɴɡòʊɴmjèlé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hcankunmrele: • ALA-LC: chanʻkunʻmreleʺ • BGN/PCGN: hsan-gonmyele: • Okell: hsañkouñmyeileì

Noun

ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး • (hcankunmrele:)

  1. (figurative) useless person, good-for-nothing

Further reading

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