ဘကြီး

Burmese

Etymology

ဘ (bha.) +‎ -ကြီး (-kri:).

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဘဂြီး

IPA^(key): /ba̰d͡ʑí/

Romanization: MLCTS: bha.kri: • ALA-LC: bhakrīʺ • BGN/PCGN: ba.gyi: • Okell: bácì

Noun

ဘကြီး • (bha.kri:)

uncle, specifically father's elder brother
(regional, Danu) Synonym of အဘိုး (a.bhui:, “grandfather”)[1]

References

“ဘကြီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science‎ (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022

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