တော်လေးဝ

Burmese

Etymology

တော် (tau) +‎ လေး (le:, “four”) +‎ ဝ (wa.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔ̀léwa̰/

Romanization: MLCTS: taule:wa. • ALA-LC: toʻleʺva • BGN/PCGN: tawle:wa. • Okell: toleìwá

Noun

တော်လေးဝ • (taule:wa.)

(Buddhism, literary) the four paragons of womanhood, i.e., Amarā, Candakinnarī, Maddīdevī, and Sambhūla.

Hyponyms

စန္ဒကိန္နရီ (canda.kinna.ri)
မဒ္ဒီဒေဝီ (maddidewi)
သမ္ဘူလ (sambhula.)
အမရာ (a.ma.ra)

References

“တော်လေးဝ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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