အရီး
Burmese
Etymology
Compare with Chinese 阿姨 (āyí, “aunt; mother's sister”).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: အ'ရီး
- IPA(key): /ʔəjí/
- Romanization: MLCTS: a.ri: • ALA-LC: ʼarīʺ • BGN/PCGN: ăyi: • Okell: ăyì
Noun
အရီး • (a.ri:)
- aunt
Derived terms
- တူအရီး (tua.ri:)
- အရီးကြီး (a.ri:kri:)
- အရီးလေး (a.ri:le:)
References
- “အရီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Tavoyan
Noun
အရီး (transliteration needed)
- (honorific) form of address for older men; sir