စီးပွား

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Burmese

Etymology

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Particularly: “Doesn't appear to be mentioned by STEDT. MED considers it an atomic phrase. That said, it could be reasonably be interpreted as a compound of စီး (ci:, “to flow”) +‎ ပွား (pwa:, “to grow, proliferate”). Luce gives the very rare Old Chinese 蓰 (OC *srelʔ, “to increase fivefold”) as a cognate to the first syllable, စီး (ci:).[1]”

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: စီးဗွား
  • IPA(key): /síbwá/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ci:pwa: • ALA-LC: cīʺpvāʺ • BGN/PCGN: si:bwa: • Okell: sìpwà

Noun

စီးပွား • (ci:pwa:)

  1. commercial enterprise

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Shan: ၸီးပႂႃး (tsíi pwáa)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (30. In excess; Profit)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan‎, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN

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