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

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