ယောက္ခမ
Burmese
Etymology
ယောက္ခ (yaukhka.) + -မ (-ma., “-ess”).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ယောက်ခ'မ
- IPA(key): /jaʊʔkʰəma̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: yaukhka.ma. • ALA-LC: yokkhama • BGN/PCGN: yaukhkăma. • Okell: yauʔhkămá
Noun
ယောက္ခမ • (yaukhka.ma.)
- parents-in-law
- (especially) mother-in-law
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”)
Derived terms
- ယောက္ခမမိန်းမသူ (yaukhka.ma.min:ma.su)
- ယောက္ခမယောက်ျားသူ
- သမီးယောက္ခမ (sa.mi:yaukhka.ma.)
Further reading
- “ယောက္ခမ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.