မရီး
Burmese
Etymology
Apparently from မ (ma., “female”) + a component ရီး (ri:, “elder”) of unclear origin, but which is also found in ဦးရီး (u:ri:, “uncle (mother's elder brother)”) and အရီး (a.ri:), see the latter for more.
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: မ'ရီး
- IPA(key): /məjí/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ma.ri: • ALA-LC: marīʺ • BGN/PCGN: măyi: • Okell: măyì
Noun
မရီး • (ma.ri:)
- sister-in-law, specifically, elder brother's wife or wife's elder sister
Coordinate terms
- ခယ်မ (hkaima., “sister-in-law (wife's younger sister)”)
- ချွေးမ (hkywe:ma., “daughter-in-law”)
- ခဲအို (hkai:ui, “brother-in-law (older sister's husband)”)
- မတ် (mat, “brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)”)
- မရီး (ma.ri:, “sister-in-law (older brother's wife)”)
- ယောက္ခထီး (yaukhka.hti:, “father-in-law”)
- ယောက္ခမ (yaukhka.ma., “mother-in-law”)
- ယောက်ဖ (yaukhpa., “brother-in-law (general)”)
- ယောင်းမ (yaung:ma., “sister-in-law (general)”)
- သားမက် (sa:mak, “son-in-law”)
Further reading
- “မရီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.