မွဲ

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mwɛ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: mwai: • ALA-LC: mvai • BGN/PCGN: mwè: • Okell: mwè

Verb

မွဲ • (mwai:)

  1. (of color) to be dull[1]
  2. to be poor[1]
    Synonym: ဆင်းရဲ (hcang:rai:)
  3. (of eyesight) to be dim[1]
    Synonyms: မှုန် (hmun), ပြာ (pra)

References
  1. “မွဲ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 799.

Mon
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    Cardinal : မွဲ

Pronunciation
  • (Myanmar) IPA(key): /mo̤a/
  • (Thailand) IPA(key): /mo̤a/[1], /mṳa/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuj ~ *muəj ~ *muuɲ.

Numeral

မွဲ (mwaj)[2]

  1. one.[3]

Adjective

မွဲ (mwaj)

  1. another.
  2. single; sole.
  3. all; whole.

Noun

မွဲ (mwaj)

  1. a other only entirety. [Siam] neg. reinforcing p.
  2. functions as.
    အာမွဲကရောံကဵုအဲကီုဟာ။
    ʼā mwoa karoṃ keu ʼoa kiuṃ hā.
    Will you travel with me?
    အဲအာကရောံလကျာ်မွဲစွံ။
    ʼoa ʼā karoṃ lakyāk mwoa cwaṃʼ.
    I am going in company with His Reverence.
    နာဍဳမွဲမ၊ ပဲါနူဇကုအဲမွဲတုဲ ကဵုညးမွဲအဲဟွံသ္ပဗ္ဒာဲ။
    nāḍī mwoama, pāynū jaku ʼoa mwoatuy keu ñaḥmwoa ʼoa hwaṃ spa bdāyy.
    I am dependent on no one but myself alone.
Derived terms

(Adverbs)

  • မွဲဂကောံ
  • မွဲစွံ
  • မွဲဝါ
  • မွဲဟာန်

Verb

မွဲ (mwaj)

  1. to guard watch over.

References
  1. Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996), “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies‎, volume 26, page 417 of 411–418
  2. Peiros, Ilia (1998) Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-142)‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, page 261
  3. Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 106
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