ဖီ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hpi • ALA-LC: phī • BGN/PCGN: hpi • Okell: hpi

Verb

ဖီ • (hpi)

1. (in compounds) to obtrude, thrust

Derived terms

• နောက်ဖေးနောက်ဖီ (naukhpe:naukhpi)
• နောက်ဖေးနောက်ဖီသွား (naukhpe:naukhpiswa:)
• ဖီဆန် (hpihcan)
• ဖီလာ (hpila)
• ဖီလာပြု (hpila-pru.)
• မာန်ဖီ (manhpi)
• ရွှေဖီ (hrwehpi)
• အဖီ (a.hpi)
• အာဏာဖီဆန်မှု (anahpihcanhmu.)

Further reading

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

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *phɔᴬ (“flower”). Cognate with Western Pwo ဖီၫ, Eastern Pwo ဖဝ့် (phɔ̂), Western Kayah ꤖꤥ꤭ (hpō).

Noun

ဖီ • (hpaw)

1. a flower

Compounds

• ဖီကဒိၣ် (hpaw ka doh̀)
• ဖီကဘျံး (hpaw ka bleë)
• ဖီကရၢၢ် (hpaw ka ruẖ)
• ဖီကွီၤ (hpaw kwaw̄)
• ဖီတၤဆှုၣ် (hpaw tā hshgù)
• ဖီထိၣ်ကိး (hpaw hṭoh̀ koḧ)
• ဖီမုၢ်ဃါ (hpaw mu̱ xah)
• ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ (hpaw thaỳ khee)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖင့် (phâɴ).

Noun

ဖီ • (hpaw)

1. a granary

Compounds

• ဘုဖီ (bu hpaw)

Etymology 3

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဖံင့် (phôɴ), Western Pwo ဖီၫ့.

Verb

ဖီ • (hpaw)

1. to cook