အကုသိုလ်

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali akusala; by surface analysis, (a., a-, un-) +‎ ကုသိုလ် (ku.suil, virtuous merit).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: အကု+သို
  • IPA(key): /ʔa̰kṵðò/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: a.ku.suil • ALA-LC: ʼakusuilʻ • BGN/PCGN: a.ku.dho • Okell: ákúthou

Noun

အကုသိုလ် • (a.ku.suil)

  1. evil, misdeed, demerit

Descendants

  • Shan: ဢၵူႉသူဝ်ႇ (ʼǎ kṵ̂u sò)

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

Development from apocopated variant of Old Mon အကုသလ, with spelling influenced by Pali အကုသလ (akusala) and possibly Burmese အကုသိုလ် (a.ku.suil). Doublet of အကုသ͏ဵု.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʔkusɒ/

Noun

အကုသိုလ် (ʼakusa)

  1. evil, misdeed, demerit