ဖီ

Burmese

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰì/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hpi • ALA-LC: phī • BGN/PCGN: hpi • Okell: hpi

Verb

ဖီ • (hpi)

  1. (in compounds) to obtrude, thrust

Derived terms

  • နောက်ဖေးနောက်ဖီ (naukhpe:naukhpi)
  • နောက်ဖေးနောက်ဖီသွား (naukhpe:naukhpiswa:)
  • ဖီဆန် (hpihcan)
  • ဖီလာ (hpila)
  • ဖီလာပြု (hpila-pru.)
  • မာန်ဖီ (manhpi)
  • ရွှေဖီ (hrwehpi)
  • အဖီ (a.hpi)
  • အာဏာဖီဆန်မှု (anahpihcanhmu.)

Further reading

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *phɔᴬ (“flower”).[1] Cognate with Western Pwo ဖီၫ, Eastern Pwo ဖဝ့် (phɔ̂), Western Kayah ꤖꤥ꤭ (hpō).

Noun

ဖီ • (hpaw)

  1. a flower
Compounds

Etymology 2

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖင့် (phâɴ).

Noun

ဖီ • (hpaw)

  1. a granary

Compounds

  • ဘုဖီ (bu hpaw)

Etymology 3

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖံင့် (phôɴ), Western Pwo ဖီၫ့.

Verb

ဖီ • (hpaw)

  1. to cook

References

  1. ^ Luangthongkum, Theraphan. 2019. A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) Vol. 12.1 (2019): i-lii. ISSN: 1836-6821, DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52441
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