တီးတိုးပြော

Burmese

Etymology

Despite MED treating the word as an atomic non-decomposable unit, apparently a compound of တီး (ti:, “to play a musical instrument”) +‎ တိုး (tui:, “soft, faint”) +‎ ပြော (prau:, “to talk”), though it is possible that the first two syllables are of sound-symbolic origin, with phono-semantic matching to syllables of similar meaning.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: တီးဒိုးပြော
  • IPA(key): /tídópjɔ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ti:tui:prau: • ALA-LC: tīʺtuiʺpro • BGN/PCGN: ti:do:pyaw: • Okell: tìtoùpyò

Verb

တီးတိုးပြော • (ti:tui:prau:)

  1. to whisper, talk in low tones
  2. (figuratively) to talk behind the back of someone concerned

Further reading

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