အရှင်

• Phonetic respelling: အ'ရှင်
• IPA^(key): /ʔəʃɪ̀ɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.hrang • ALA-LC: ʼarhaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: ăshin • Okell: ăhyiñ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ရှင် (hrang, “to live”).

အရှင် • (a.hrang)

1. anything living or alive
2. anything unfixed, detached, or flexible

From အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + an element ရှင် (hrang, “lord”), the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *C-rjaŋ (“uncle, superior”) (Schuessler (2007), STEDT; note similarities to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ (“upper part, rise, raise, top, summit”)). Cognate with Tibetan ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”), Old Chinese 丈 (OC *daŋʔ, “older male, measure of ten feet”); see also 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs, “upwards”).

• အသျှင် (a.hsyang)

အရှင် • (a.hrang)

1. lord; master
2. (honorific) a title used by Buddhist monks and nobles

• “အရှင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.