အရှေ့

Burmese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese အရှိယ် (ahriy).[1] By surface analysis, အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ရှေ့ (hre., “front”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: အ'ရှေ့
  • IPA(key): /ʔəʃḛ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: a.hre. • ALA-LC: ʼarheʹ • BGN/PCGN: ăshe. • Okell: ăhyeí
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Noun

အရှေ့ • (a.hre.)

  1. east (direction)

Coordinate terms

compass points (native origin):  [edit]

အနောက်မြောက် (a.naukmrauk) မြောက် (mrauk) အရှေ့မြောက် (a.hre.mrauk)
အနောက် (a.nauk) အရှေ့ (a.hre.)
အနောက်တောင် (a.nauktaung) တောင် (taung) အရှေ့တောင် (a.hre.taung)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Rudolf A. Yanson (1 January 2002) A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions‎[1], Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 163–167

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