ပွေ

Burmese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pwè/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: pwe • ALA-LC: pve • BGN/PCGN: pwe • Okell: pwei

Verb

ပွေ • (pwe)

  1. to be besieged with, be beset with (work, trouble, difficulties) be fraught with (anxiety)
  2. to gad about, play around

Adjective

ပွေ • (pwe)

  1. whirling
  2. devious

Derived terms

  • ပွေနောက် (pwenauk)
  • ပွေလီ (pweli)
  • ဗရပွေ (ba.ra.pwe)
  • မုန့်လေပွေ (mun.le-pwe)
  • ရှုပ်ထွေးပွေလီ (hruphtwe:pweli)
  • ရှုပ်ပွေ (hruppwe)
  • လေပွေ (le-pwe)
  • အမှုပွေ (a.hmu.pwe)

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