မှည့်

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m̥ḭ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hmany. • ALA-LC: mhaññʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: hmi. • Okell: hmí

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-min (“to be ripe”).

Adjective

မှည့် • (hmany.)

1. ripe

Verb

မှည့် • (hmany.)

1. (of a boil, abscess) to be ripe

   အနာပြည်မှည့် ― a.na-pranyhmany. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (of age) to be overripe

   ခန္ဒါမှည့်သော် ― hkandahmany.sau ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (of a girl) to be buxom, ripe

   ဒီဟာမလေးတော်တော်မှည့်တယ်။ ― dihama.le:tautauhmany.tai|| ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• ဆန်မှည့် (hcanhmany.)
• နုမှည့် (nu.hmany.)
• ပင်မှည့် (panghmany.)
• ပြည်မှည့် (pranyhmany.)
• မျက်ရည်ခံမှည့် (myak-ranyhkamhmany.)
• မှည့်ကြွေကြွေ (hmany.krwe-krwe)
• သပြေသီးမှည့်ရောင် (sa.presi:hmany.raung)
• အုပ်မှည့် (uphmany.)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ (“name; to name, command”).

Verb

မှည့် • (hmany.)

1. to name

Derived terms

• နာမည်မှည့် (namanyhmany.)
• အမည်မှည့် (a.manyhmany.)

Further reading

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