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:)
- (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.