ဘီး
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Burmese
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Etymology 1
[edit]Derived by STEDT from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gʷəy² (“comb”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ʔ-gʷəy-s (“comb (for hair)”), and compared with Mizo [Term?] (khuih, “comb”). Note also more overt similarities to Old Chinese 篦 (OC *piː, *bis, “fine-tooth comb”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bí/
- Romanization: MLCTS: bhi: • ALA-LC: bhīʺ • BGN/PCGN: bi: • Okell: bì
Noun
[edit]ဘီး • (bhi:)
- comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)
Derived terms
[edit]- ဘီးကျော်ပတ် (bhi:kyaupat)
- ဘီးကုပ် (bhi:kup)
- ဘီးစိပ် (bhi:cip)
- ဘီးဆံထုံး (bhi:hcamhtum:)
- ဘီးဆံပတ် (bhi:hcampat)
- ဘီးတောင်ပို (bhi:taungpui)
- ဘီးဖို (bhi:hpui)
- ဘီးမ (bhi:ma.)
- လိပ်ခွံဘီး (liphkwambhi:)
- ဝက်မှင်ဘီး (wakhmangbhi:)
See also
[edit]- ဖြီး (hpri:)
Etymology 2
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The closest possible cognate is Lhao Vo pyi" (“wheel-belt”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respelling: ဗိန်း
- IPA(key): /béɪɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: bhi: • ALA-LC: bhīʺ • BGN/PCGN: bein: • Okell: beìñ
Noun
[edit]ဘီး • (bhi:)
- wheel (circular device facilitating movement or transportation)
Derived terms
[edit]- ချပ်ဘီး (hkyapbhi:)
- စက်ဘီး (cakbhi:)
- တစ်ဘီးလှိမ့် (tacbhi:hlim.)
- ဘီးခွန် (bhi:hkwan)
- ဘီးပတ်ကြိုး (bhi:patkrui:)
- ဘီးလုံး (bhi:lum:)
- ယောက်ဘီး (yaukbhi:)
- ရစ်ဘီး (racbhi:)
- သုံးဘီးကား (sum:bhi:ka:)
- ဟန်ဘီး (hanbhi:)
Further reading
[edit]- “ဘီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.