မေးစေ့

မေးစေ့

Burmese

မေးစေ့

Etymology

မေး (me:, “lower jaw”) +‎ စေ့ (ce., “protuberance”)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မေးဇိ
• IPA^(key): /mézḭ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: me:ce. • ALA-LC: meʺceʹ • BGN/PCGN: me:zi. • Okell: meìsí

Noun

မေးစေ့ • (me:ce.)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

References

• “မေးစေ့” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 765.
• “မေးစေ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.