ရှဉ့်

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-(l/r)e(y/ŋ) (squirrel, weasel). Compare Old Chinese (OC *sreŋ, *sreŋs, “Siberian weasel”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɪ̰ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hrany. • ALA-LC: rhañʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: shin. • Okell: hyíñ

Noun

ရှဉ့် • (hrany.)

  1. squirrel

Derived terms

  • ငါးရှဉ့် (nga:hrany.)
  • ငါးရှဉ့်ပွက်ထ (nga:hrany.pwakhta.)
  • ငါးရှဉ့်သွေး (nga:hrany.swe:)
  • ရှဉ့်ငပေါ (hrany.nga.pau:)
  • ရှဉ့်စွေ့ (hrany.cwe.)
  • ရှဉ့်ပျံ (hrany.pyam)
  • ရှဉ့်မတက် (hrany.ma.tak)
  • ရှဉ့်မြီး (hrany.mri:)

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