မှန်ဘီလူး

Burmese

Etymology

မှန် (hman, “glass”) +‎ ဘီလူး (bhilu:, “ogre”)

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: မှန်ဘီ'လူး

IPA^(key): /m̥àɴbəlú/

Romanization: MLCTS: hmanbhilu: • ALA-LC: mhanʻbhīlūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hmanbălu: • Okell: hmañbălù

Noun

မှန်ဘီလူး • (hmanbhilu:)

lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
magnifying glass

Synonyms

(magnifying glass): သူရကန် (sura.kan)

References

“မှန်ဘီလူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
“မှန်ဘီလူး” in Wörterbuch Burmesisch–Deutsch (VEB Verlag Enzykolopädie Leipzig 1976), by Annemarie Esche.

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