စာကြီးပေကြီး

Burmese

Etymology

စာ (ca, “writing”) +‎ ကြီး (kri:, “big”) +‎ ပေ (pe, “corypha palm”) +‎ ကြီး (kri:, “big”), apparently as an emphatic form of စာပေ (cape, “literature”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: စာဂြီးပေဂြီး
  • IPA(key): /sàd͡ʑípèd͡ʑí/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ca-kri:pe-kri: • ALA-LC: cākrīʺpekrīʺ • BGN/PCGN: sagyi:pegyi: • Okell: sacìpeicì

Noun

စာကြီးပေကြီး • (ca-kri:pe-kri:)

  1. authoritative and serious literature

Further reading

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