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:)

1. 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)

1. (honorific) form of address for older men; sir