အရှင်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: အ'ရှင်
  • IPA(key): /ʔəʃɪ̀ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: a.hrang • ALA-LC: ʼarhaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: ăshin • Okell: ăhyiñ

Etymology 1

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ရှင် (hrang, “to live”).

Noun

အရှင် • (a.hrang)

  1. anything living or alive
  2. anything unfixed, detached, or flexible
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + an element ရှင် (hrang, “lord”), the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ (“uncle, superior”) (Schuessler (2007), STEDT; note similarities to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part, rise, raise, top, summit”)). Cognate with Tibetan ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”), Old Chinese 丈 (OC *daŋʔ, “older male, measure of ten feet”); see also 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs, “upwards”).

Alternative forms

Noun

အရှင် • (a.hrang)

  1. lord; master
  2. (honorific) a title used by Buddhist monks and nobles

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