မီးခတ်

Burmese

Etymology

မီး (mi:, “fire”) +‎ ခတ် (hkat, “to beat; to strike”).

Pronunciation 1

Phonetic respelling: မီးဂတ်

IPA^(key): /míɡaʔ/

Romanization: MLCTS: mi:hkat • ALA-LC: mīʺkhatʻ • BGN/PCGN: mi:gat • Okell: mìhkaʔ

Noun

မီးခတ် • (mi:hkat)

tinderbox

Pronunciation 2

Phonetic respelling: မီးခတ်

IPA^(key): /míkʰaʔ/

Romanization: MLCTS: mi:hkat • ALA-LC: mīʺkhatʻ • BGN/PCGN: mi:hkat • Okell: mìhkaʔ

Verb

မီးခတ် • (mi:hkat)

to strike steel against flint

References

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

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.