ငါးပုဏ္ဏား

Burmese

Etymology

ငါး (nga:, “fish”) +‎ ပုဏ္ဏား (punna:, “brahmin”)

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ငါး'ပုန်နား
IPA^(key): /ŋəpòʊɴná/
Romanization: MLCTS: nga:punna: • ALA-LC: ṅāʺpuṇṇāʺ • BGN/PCGN: ngăponna: • Okell: ngăpouñnà

Noun

ငါးပုဏ္ဏား • (nga:punna:) (classifier ကောင်)

mango fish,[1] paradise threadfin (Polynemus paradiseus[2])

See also

ကကူရံ (ka.kuram)

References

“ငါးပုဏ္ဏား” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 327.
Ōno, Tōru (2000) ビルマ(ミャンマー)語辞典 [Burmese dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Daigakushorin, →ISBN, page 119

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

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