တော်လေးဝ

Burmese

Etymology

တော် (tau) +‎ လေး (le:, “four”) +‎ ဝ (wa.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̀léwa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: taule:wa. • ALA-LC: toʻleʺva • BGN/PCGN: tawle:wa. • Okell: toleìwá

Noun

တော်လေးဝ • (taule:wa.)

1. (Buddhism, literary) the four paragons of womanhood, i.e., Amarā, Candakinnarī, Maddīdevī, and Sambhūla.

Hyponyms

• စန္ဒကိန္နရီ (canda.kinna.ri)
• မဒ္ဒီဒေဝီ (maddidewi)
• သမ္ဘူလ (sambhula.)
• အမရာ (a.ma.ra)

 

References

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