မေ

See also: မေ့ and မေး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: me • ALA-LC: me • BGN/PCGN: me • Okell: mei

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English May.

Noun

မေ • (me)

1. (~လ) May

Derived terms

• မေဒေး (mede:)
• မေမြို့ပန်း (me-mrui.pan:)

Descendants

• Shan: မေႇ (mèe)

See also

Gregorian calendar monthsedit

• ဇန်နဝါရီ (janna.wari)
• ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ (hpehpauwari)
• မတ် (mat)
• ဧပြီ (e-pri)
• မေ (me)
• ဇွန် (jwan)
• ဇူလိုင် (juluing)
• ဩဂုတ် (au:gut)
• စက်တင်ဘာ (caktangbha)
• အောက်တိုဘာ (auktuibha)
• နိုဝင်ဘာ (nuiwangbha)
• ဒီဇင်ဘာ (dijangbha)

Etymology 2

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“woman; female relative”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronoun

မေ • (me)

1. term of endearment used by a man to address his wife or lover

Derived terms

• ကွယ်တမေရ (kwaita.mera.)
• မေမေ (meme)
• ရဲမေ (rai:me)
• အမေ (a.me)

Proper noun

မေ • (me)

1. a female given name

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• me (Latin script)
• 𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• मे (Devanagari script)
• মে (Bengali script)
• මෙ (Sinhalese script)
• เม (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມ (Lao script)
• មេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

မေ

1. Burmese script form of me, enclitic genitive/dative singular of အဟံ (ahaṃ)
2. Burmese script form of me, enclitic instrumental/ablative singular of အဟံ (ahaṃ)