နိုင်
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Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /nàɪɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: nuing • ALA-LC: nuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: naing • Okell: naiñ
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]နိုင် • (nuing)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]နိုင် • (nuing)
References
[edit]- “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.