ကရေင်

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Mon

Alternative forms

ကရေၚ်^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Myanmar) IPA^(key): /kə.reaŋ/
(Thailand) IPA^(key): /ka.reaŋ/
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Proper noun

ကရေင် (kareṅ)^[3]

Karen, Kayin (name of one of Tibeto-burman speaking national groups of the Union of Burma)

Derived terms

ကရေၚ်ဗၟာ (kareṅbmā, “S'gaw Karen”)
ကရေၚ်မန် (kareṅman, “Pwo Karen”)
ကရေင်သကဵု (“S'gaw Karen”)
ကရေင်ပဳုဲ (“Pwo Karen”)
သၞေဟ်ကရေင် (“Hnitkarin”)

Descendants

→ Burmese: ကရင် (ka.rang)
- → English: Karen
→ Thai: กะเหรี่ยง (gà-rìiang)

Trivia

This word sounds very similar to ကြေၚ် (“Eugenia tree”); the specimen here is indistinguishable.

References

^ Mon Thai Dictionary (application), ใช้ข้อมูลจาก พจนานุกรมมอญ-ไทย ฉบับมอญสยาม.
^ Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
^ อนุสรณ์ สถานนท์, ร้อยตรี (1984) พจนานุกรม มอญ-ไทย ; Thai translation of Halliday, R. (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary, Bangkok: Siam Society (2nd ed.: Rangoon: Mon Cultural Section, Ministry of Union Culture, Govt. of the Union of Burma, 1955).

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