သီး

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /θí/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: si: • ALA-LC: sīʺ • BGN/PCGN: thi: • Okell: thì

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sej (“fruit; rose; round object”). Cognate with Tibetan སེ (se) and Lashi shí.

Noun

သီး • (si:)

  1. fruit

Verb

သီး • (si:)

  1. to bear fruit, to fruit
Derived terms

Etymology 2
သီး

Noun

သီး • (si:)

  1. wood apple (Limonia acidissima, syn. Feronia elephantum[1])
    Meronym: သီးသီး (si:si:)

(Nouns)

See also

Adjective

သီး • (si:)

  1. separate, discrete

References
  1. Ōno, Tōru (2000) ビルマ(ミャンマー)語辞典 [Burmese dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Daigakushorin, →ISBN, page 714
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