မေကြီး

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Burmese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

မေ (me) +‎ -ကြီး (-kri:).

Pronunciation[edit]

Phonetic respelling: မေဂြီး
IPA^(key): /mèd͡ʑí/
Romanization: MLCTS: me-kri: • ALA-LC: mekrīʺ • BGN/PCGN: megyi: • Okell: meicì

Noun[edit]

မေကြီး • (me-kri:)

(regional, Danu) Synonym of အဘွား (a.bhwa:, “grandmother”)^[1]

References[edit]

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

^ ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science‎^[1] (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022

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