parabaik
English
parabaik
Etymology
Borrowing from
Burmese
ပုရပိုက်
(
pu.ra.puik
)
.
Noun
parabaik
(
plural
parabaiks
)
The
traditional
form
of
paper
in
Burma
, made of
daphne
bark
agglutinated into a kind of
pasteboard
and blackened with
charcoal
paste
, then folded and written on with a
steatite
pencil.
A
document
or
drawing
executed on this kind of
paper
.
Alternative forms
parabeik
,
parabike
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