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Burmese
Etymology
Causative of ကွဲ (kwai:). The "half" sense is from a semantic development "divide" > "of a divided portion" > "half".
Pronunciation
Verb
Burmese verb set
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ကွဲ (kwai:)
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| Causative | ခွဲ (hkwai:) |
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ခွဲ • (hkwai:)
- to split (divide along a more or less straight line); to break, divide, part
- to separate, divide into parts, differentiate, discriminate
- to dissect, operate, incise (as in surgery), cut
- to assess (tax)
Noun
ခွဲ • (hkwai:)
- half
- a traditional Burmese unit of volume equivalent to 2
+1⁄4 imperial pecks or approximately 20.4574 liters
Derived terms
See also
See Appendix:Burmese units of measure.
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