လီ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: li • ALA-LC: lī • BGN/PCGN: li • Okell: li

Adjective

လီ • (li)

1. in installments: in parts.

Derived terms

• ခုနစ်ရက်ခုနစ်လီ (hku.nacrakhku.nacli)
• ဆယ့်နှစ်လီစနစ် (hcai.hnaclica.nac)
• ဆယ်လီကျေ (hcaili-kye)
• ဆယ်လီစနစ် (hcailica.nac)
• ဆယ်လီစိတ် (hcailicit)
• ဆယ်လီမူး (hcailimu:)
• ထွေလီကာလီ (htwelikali)
• ပွေလီ (pweli)
• ဖန်တလီဖန်တလာ (hpanta.lihpanta.la)
• ရှုပ်ထွေးပွေလီ (hruphtwe:pweli)
• လက်လီ (lakli)
• လက်လီစိတ် (laklicit)
• လုပ်လီလုပ်လဲ့ (lupliluplai.)
• ဝေလီဝေလင်း (weliwelang:)
• အလီလီ (a.lili)
• အလီလီအလာလာ (a.lilia.lala)

 

Classifier

လီ • (li)

1. numerical classifier for counting multiples, frequencies

References

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

Mon

Etymology

Compare Burmese လိမ် (lim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɯːm/

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Verb

လီ (liṃ)

1. to lie (to give false information intentionally with intent to deceive)

Rakhine

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s/ʔ-ləy¹, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ləj. Cognate with Burmese လေ (le).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lï/

Noun

လီ (transliteration needed)

1. air

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː˨˦/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ɗɤjᴬ (“good”). Cognate with Thai ดี (dii), Northern Thai ᨯᩦ (di), Lao ດີ (dī), Lü ᦡᦲ (ḋii), Ahom 𑜓𑜣 (dī), 𑜃𑜣 (nī) or 𑜑𑜣 (hī), Bouyei ndil, Zhuang ndei.

Adjective

လီ • (lǐi) (abstract noun တၢင်းလီ)

1. good

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *ɓliːᴬ (“gallbladder; bile”). Cognate with Thai ดี (dii), Lao ບີ (bī), Ahom 𑜓𑜣 (dī) or 𑜎𑜣 (lī), Zhuang mbei; Compare Eastern Pwo လီႋ.

Noun

လီ • (lǐi)

1. gallbladder; bile.