ဖွား

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰwá/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hpwa: • ALA-LC: phvāʺ • BGN/PCGN: hpwa: • Okell: hpwà

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *pwa² (“to be born, give birth”) (phwâ "bear, bring forth"). Cognate with Nusu [Term?] (phuɔʴ⁵³, “to give birth”) (STEDT).

Verb

ဖွား • (hpwa:)

  1. to give birth (to a child)
  2. to be born (in a certain time or place)
Derived terms
  • ပေါက်ဖွား (paukhpwa:)
  • ဖွားစာရင်း (hpwa:carang:)
  • ဖွားဖက် (hpwa:hpak)
  • ဖွားမြင် (hpwa:mrang)
  • ဖွားသန့်စင် (hpwa:san.cang)
  • ဖွားသေစာရင်း (hpwa:secarang:)
  • မွေးဖွား (mwe:hpwa:)
  • မိုးဖွား (mui:hpwa:)
  • မီးဖွား (mi:hpwa:)
  • မီးဖွားခွင့် (mi:hpwa:hkwang.)
  • မောင်ဖွား (maunghpwa:)
  • ရေဖွား (rehpwa:)
  • သားဖွား (sa:hpwa:)
  • သားဖွားခန်း (sa:hpwa:hkan:)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (phwâ "loose; profuse; shaggy"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ဖွား • (hpwa:)

  1. to be shaggy (as of a dog's coat)
Derived terms
  • ပန်းဖွား (pan:hpwa:)

Etymology 3

Apparently an allofamic variant of ဘွား (bhwa:); see there for more (STEDT).

Noun

ဖွား • (hpwa:)

  1. grandmother
    Synonym: ဘွား (bhwa:)
Derived terms
  • ဖွားဖွား (hpwa:hpwa:)
  • ဖွားသီလ (hpwa:sila.)
  • ဖွားအေ (hpwa:e)

Further reading

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