ရွေး

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jwé/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: rwe: • ALA-LC: rveʺ • BGN/PCGN: ywe: • Okell: yweì

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ril (“to choose; to be fastidious”). Cognate with Sangtam Naga thro (“to choose”) (STEDT).

Verb

ရွေး • (rwe:)

  1. to choose, select, pick
  2. to redeem
  3. to ransom
  4. to take delivery of
Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (rwê "kind of tree"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ရွေး • (rwe:)

  1. a species of plant, the seeds from which are used as jeweler's weights: Abrus precatorius
  2. (also ချင်ရွေး (hkyang-rwe:), ရွေးကလေး (rwe:ka.le:)) the seed of ရွေးကလေး (rwe:ka.le:) or ရွေးကြီး (rwe:kri:)
    1. a weight measured by the seeds
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