အရွဲ့တိုက်

Burmese

Etymology

Despite MED treating the word as an atomic non-decomposable unit, from အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ရွဲ့ (rwai., “to be askew, sarcastic”) +‎ တိုက် (tuik, “to strike, dash”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: အ'ရွဲ့တိုက်
  • IPA(key): /ʔəjwɛ̰taɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: a.rwai.tuik • ALA-LC: ʼarvaiʹtuikʻ • BGN/PCGN: ăywè.taik • Okell: ăywétaiʔ

Verb

အရွဲ့တိုက် • (a.rwai.tuik)

  1. to act or speak perversely or sarcastically

Further reading

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