ကန့်လန့်တိုက်

Burmese

Etymology

ကန့်လန့် (kan.lan., “door bolt; contrarily”) +‎ တိုက် (tuik, “to dash against”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respellings: ကန့်လန့်တိုက်, ဂန့်'လန့်တိုက်
  • IPA(key): /ka̰ɴla̰ɴtaɪʔ/, /ɡəla̰ɴtaɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kan.lan.tuik • ALA-LC: kanʻʹlanʻʹtuikʻ • BGN/PCGN: kan.lan.taik/gălan.taik • Okell: káñláñtaiʔ/kăláñtaiʔ

Verb

ကန့်လန့်တိုက် • (kan.lan.tuik)

  1. (figuratively) to act in defiance, thumb one's nose at someone
    ဘုကန့်လန့်တိုက်တယ် ― bhu.kan.lan.tuiktai ― to be difficult and argumentative

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