ခါး

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Burmese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʰá/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hka: • ALA-LC: khāʺ • BGN/PCGN: hka: • Okell: hkà

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kal ~ *s-gal (back (lower); kidney; load; to carry) (STEDT). Cognate with Old Chinese (OC *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ, “to carry, bear; load, charge”); see there for more. Hill (2019) (p. 207) adduces (OC *kaːn, “liver”), Tibetan མཁལ (mkhal, kidney, reins) as phonetically-sound cognates.

Noun

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ခါး (hka:)

  1. waist
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ka-(n/m/ŋ) (bitter). Cognate with Tibetan ཁ་བ (kha ba), Nuosu (ke), Lisu ꓘꓪꓽ (kʰwɑ̀), S'gaw Karen ခၣ် (khà), and Chinese (), all ‘bitter’.

Adjective

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ခါး (hka:)

  1. bitter (having an acrid taste)
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See also

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