ရိ
See also: ရီ
Burmese
Etymology
From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-ri-k (“rotten, pus, gleet, filth, stench, smell, odor”); cognate with Tibetan དྲི (dri, “odor, smell”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jḭ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ri. • ALA-LC: ri • BGN/PCGN: yi. • Okell: yí
Adjective
ရိ • (ri.)
- (of vegetables, flowers) rotten
- (of clothes) threadbare, worn out
Verb
ရိ • (ri.)
- to be tired out
- to speak provokingly
Derived terms
- တိတိရိရိ (ti.ti.ri.ri.)
- တော်ရိလျော်ရိ (tauri.lyauri.)
- ထိကပါးရိကပါး (hti.ka.pa:ri.ka.pa:)
- နွမ်းရိ (nwam:ri.)
- ပျင်းရိ (pyang:ri.)
- ပျင်းရိပျင်းတွဲ (pyang:ri.pyang:twai:)
- ပိရိ (pi.ri.)
- မချိတရိ (ma.hkyi.ta.ri.)
- မေတ္တာရိ (mettari.)
- ရိနာ (ri.na)
- ရိရွဲ (ri.rwai:)
- ရိရှား (ri.hra:)
- ရိသဲ့သဲ့ (ri.sai.sai.)
- လျော့ရိလျော့ရဲ (lyau.ri.lyau.rai:)
- အရိ (a.ri.)
- အလိုတော်ရိ (a.luitauri.)
Further reading
- “ရိ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.