ကောင်ကလေး

Burmese

Etymology

ကောင် (kaung, “body”) +‎ ကလေး (ka.le:, “child”), apparently from an abbreviation of ကောင်ကလေး (kaungka.le:, “little boy”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ကောင်ဂ'လေး
  • IPA(key): /kàʊɴɡəlé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kaungka.le: • ALA-LC: koṅʻkaleʺ • BGN/PCGN: kaunggăle: • Okell: kauñkăleì

Noun

ကောင်ကလေး • (kaungka.le:)

  1. little boy
    Synonym: ကောင်လေး (kaungle:)

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