ရေ

See also: ရေး, ရွှေ, and ရှေ့

Burmese

ရေ

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese ရိယ် (riy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəj (“water; liquid; body fluid”). Cognate with Pela ɣəi⁵⁵, Tangut 𗋽 (*zjɨ̱r²), and Tshangla ri¹³.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: re • ALA-LC: re • BGN/PCGN: ye • Okell: yei

Noun

ရေ • (re)

1. water

   ရေ နှစ်ခွက် ― re hnachkwak ― two cups of water

Derived terms

• ရေကြီးခြင်း (re-kri:hkrang:)
• ရေခဲ (rehkai:)
• ရေငတ် (re-ngat)
• ရေဆန် (rehcan)
• ရေလွှမ်းခြင်း (rehlwam:hkrang:)

 

References

• “ရေ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 847.
• “ရေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• Hill, Nathan W. "Evolution of the Burmese vowel system." Transactions of the Philological Society 110.1 (2012): 64-79.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• re (Latin script)
• 𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• रे (Devanagari script)
• রে (Bengali script)
• රෙ (Sinhalese script)
• เร (Thai script)
• ᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເຣ (Lao script)
• រេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

ရေ

1. Burmese script form of re, locative singular of ရ (ra, “the Pali letter 'r'”)