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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-lip (“turtle, tortoise”).
Noun
လိပ် • (lip) (classifier ကောင်)
- tortoise, turtle
Etymology 2
From Pali lipi (“alphabet, letter of the alphabet”), from Sanskrit लिपि (lipi, “writing, letters, alphabet”).
Noun
လိပ် • (lip)
- writing
- address
Derived terms
Etymology 3
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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (lip "roll up, curl, be turned, as an edge"). Luce gives Old Chinese 衽 (OC *njɯms, “overlapping part of Chinese gown; skirts, flaps”) as a potential cognate.[1] Alternatively, perhaps derived from Etymology 2, as rolled-up scrolls were common mediums of writing (MED separates these two senses, though). However, Indic loans in Burmese appear to be mostly nouns and not verbs.”
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Verb
လိပ် • (lip)
- to roll something up
Derived terms
- အလိပ် (a.lip, “a roll, bale”)
References
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-IP Finals (46. to Roll up, Curl)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 38
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