တာဝန်ခံအဖွဲ့

တာဝန်ခံအဖွဲ့

Burmese

Etymology

တာဝန် (tawan) +‎ ခံ (hkam) +‎ အဖွဲ့ (a.hpwai., “body”)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: တာဝန်ခံအ'ဖွဲ့
• IPA^(key): /tàwʊ̀ɴkʰàɴʔəpʰwɛ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tawanhkam-a.hpwai. • ALA-LC: tāvanʻkhaṃʼaphvaiʹ • BGN/PCGN: tawunhkanăhpwè. • Okell: tawuñhkañăhpwé

Noun

တာဝန်ခံအဖွဲ့ • (tawanhkam-a.hpwai.)

1. (historical) cabinet

Usage notes

Replaced ဝန်ကြီးအဖွဲ့ (wankri:a.hpwai.) in Burma from 1962 to 1988, during the socialist period due to the association of ဝန်ကြီး (wankri:) with feudalism