နင့်

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɪ̰ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nang. • ALA-LC: naṅʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: nin. • Okell: níñ

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (naŋ "crammed, stuffed, tight"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Verb

နင့် • (nang.)

  1. to be packed tightly
  2. to be overloaded with
  3. to feel deeply hurt
Derived terms
  • စားပိုးနင့် (ca:pui:nang.)
  • ဆို့နင့် (hcui.nang.)
  • နင့်နင့်သီးသီးပြော (nang.nang.si:si:prau:)
  • နင့်နာ (nang.na)
  • နင့်သီး (nang.si:)
  • နားနင့် (na:nang.)
  • ရင်နင့် (rangnang.)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (you).

Pronoun

နင့် • (nang.)

  1. your
  2. you (used when addressing an equal or a younger person in an intimate way or to others in an impolite manner)
Derived terms
  • နင့်နင့်သီးသီးပြော (nang.nang.si:si:prau:)
  • သီးနင့် (si:nang.)

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