လေး

See also: လေ

Burmese

Burmese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : လေး (le:)     Ordinal : စတုတ္ထ (ca.tuthta.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé/
• Romanization: MLCTS: le: • ALA-LC: leʺ • BGN/PCGN: le: • Okell: leì

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen လွံၢ် (lwee̱), Nuosu ꇖ (ly), Tibetan བཞི (bzhi), Sikkimese ཞི (zhi).

Numeral

လေး • (le:) (digit ၄)

1. (numeral) four

Synonyms

• စတု (ca.tu.)
• ဇယ (ja.ya.)

Etymology 2

From Old Burmese လိယ်း (liy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ləj-t ~ s-rəj-t (“heavy”). Cognate with Nuosu ꇖ (ly) (as in ꀉꇖ (ax ly, “heavy”)), Jingpho li (“heavy”), Drung vli (“heavy”), Tibetan ལྕི་བ (lci ba, “heavy”), ལྗིད་པ (ljid pa, “heaviness, weight”) and Naxi lee.

Adjective

လေး • (le:)

1. heavy

Derived terms

• လေးလံ (le:lam)

Etymology 3

လေး

From Old Burmese လိယ် (liy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with S'gaw Karen ချံၣ် (khleè, “bow”), Naxi leemei (“longbow”), Jingpho kung-li (“bow”).

Noun

လေး • (le:)

1. (weaponry) bow (weapon used for shooting arrows)

Derived terms

• လေးတင် (le:tang)

References

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