မှည့်

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m̥ḭ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hmany. • ALA-LC: mhaññʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: hmi. • Okell: hmí

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-min (to be ripe).

Adjective

မှည့် • (hmany.)

  1. ripe

Verb

မှည့် • (hmany.)

  1. (of a boil, abscess) to be ripe
    အနာပြည်မှည့်a.na-pranyhmany.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (of age) to be overripe
    ခန္ဒါမှည့်သော်hkandahmany.sau(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. (of a girl) to be buxom, ripe
    ဒီဟာမလေးတော်တော်မှည့်တယ်။dihama.le:tautauhmany.tai||(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

  • ဆန်မှည့် (hcanhmany.)
  • နုမှည့် (nu.hmany.)
  • ပင်မှည့် (panghmany.)
  • ပြည်မှည့် (pranyhmany.)
  • မျက်ရည်ခံမှည့် (myak-ranyhkamhmany.)
  • မှည့်ကြွေကြွေ (hmany.krwe-krwe)
  • သပြေသီးမှည့်ရောင် (sa.presi:hmany.raung)
  • အုပ်မှည့် (uphmany.)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ (name; to name, command).

Verb

မှည့် • (hmany.)

  1. to name
Derived terms
  • နာမည်မှည့် (namanyhmany.)
  • အမည်မှည့် (a.manyhmany.)

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