နှစ်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n̥ɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hnac • ALA-LC: nhacʻ • BGN/PCGN: hnit • Okell: hniʔ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ː)ŋ ~ s-nik (year; harvest). Cognate with S'gaw Karen နံၣ် (neè).

Noun

နှစ် (hnac)

  1. year
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Burmese numbers (edit)
20
 ←  1
2
3  → 
    Cardinal: နှစ် (hnac)
    Ordinal: ဒုတိယ (du.ti.ya.)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s. Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခံ (khee), Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Sikkimese ཉི (nyi), Nuosu (nyip), Atong (India) ni.

Numeral

နှစ် (hnac) (digit )

  1. two
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Causative of နစ် (nac, to sink, drown).

Verb

Burmese verb set
Base နစ် (nac)
Causativeနှစ် (hnac)

နှစ် (hnac)

  1. to immerse, dip
  2. (figuratively) to demean oneself or degrade others
  3. (figuratively) to sacrifice
Derived terms

Further reading

Rakhine

Rakhine cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : နှစ်
    Ordinal : ဒုတိယ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni(ː)ŋ ~ s-nik. Cognate with Burmese နှစ် (hnac), S'gaw Karen နံၣ် (neè).


Numeral

နှစ် (transliteration needed)

  1. two