ဇနီး

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit जनी (janī, “bride, daughter-in-law”), from जनि (jani, “woman, wife”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Pronunciation
  • Phonetic respelling: ဇ'နီး
  • IPA(key): /zəní/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ja.ni: • ALA-LC: janīʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăni: • Okell: zănì

Noun

ဇနီး • (ja.ni:)

  1. (formal) wife

Derived terms
  • ဇနီးမောင်နှံ (ja.ni:maunghnam)

Further reading
  • “ဇနီး” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 424.
  • “ဇနီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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