နိုင်

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nàɪɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nuing • ALA-LC: nuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: naing • Okell: naiñ

Etymology 1

Possibly Sino–Tibetan: compare Tibetan ནུས (nus, “be able to; capable; to withstand; capacity; strength; force; power; function; energy”), Chinese 能 (“can, capable of”).

Verb

နိုင် • (nuing)

  1. can, be able
    ဒီနေ့ ကျွန်တော် မလာနိုင်ပါဘူး။
    dine. kywantau ma.lanuingpabhu:||
    I cannot come today.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mon နာဲ.

Noun

နိုင် • (nuing)

  1. (honorific) a title used by Mon men, in lieu of ကို (kui)

References
  • “နိုင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • “နိုင်” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
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