ဒေဝီ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali devī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dèwì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: dewi • ALA-LC: devī • BGN/PCGN: dewi • Okell: deiwi

Noun

ဒေဝီ • (dewi)

1. goddess
2. queen
3. (historical, nobility) A style customarily awarded to the king's chief consort

   သီရိပဝရတိလောက မဟာရာဇိန္ဒာဓိပတိ ပဒုမရတနာဒေဝီ

   siri.pa.wa.ra.ti.lau:ka. ma.harajindadhi.pa.ti. pa.du.ma.ra.ta.nadewi

   Style of Hsinbyumashin

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• devī (Latin script)
• 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀻 (Brahmi script)
• देवी (Devanagari script)
• দেৰী (Bengali script)
• දෙවී (Sinhalese script)
• ဒေဝဳ or ၻေဝီ (Burmese script)
• เทวี (Thai script)
• ᨴᩮᩅᩦ (Tai Tham script)
• ເທວີ (Lao script)
• ទេវី (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄬𑅇𑄩 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဒေဝီ f

1. Burmese script form of devī (“goddess, queen”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဒေဝီ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဒေဝီ (devī)	ဒေဝိယော (deviyo) or ဒေဝီ (devī)
Accusative (second)	ဒေဝိံ (deviṃ) or ဒေဝိယံ (deviyaṃ)	ဒေဝိယော (deviyo) or ဒေဝီ (devī)
Instrumental (third)	ဒေဝိယာ (deviyā)	ဒေဝီဟိ (devīhi) or ဒေဝီဘိ (devībhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဒေဝိယာ (deviyā)	ဒေဝီနံ (devīnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဒေဝိယာ (deviyā)	ဒေဝီဟိ (devīhi) or ဒေဝီဘိ (devībhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဒေဝိယာ (deviyā)	ဒေဝီနံ (devīnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဒေဝိယာ (deviyā) or ဒေဝိယံ (deviyaṃ)	ဒေဝီသု (devīsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဒေဝိ (devi)	ဒေဝိယော (deviyo) or ဒေဝီ (devī)