အစေ့

See also: အစု and စေ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အ'စိ
• IPA^(key): /ʔəsḭ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.ce. • ALA-LC: ʼaceʹ • BGN/PCGN: ăsi. • Okell: ăsí

Etymology 1

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ စေ့ (ce., “seed”).

Noun

အစေ့ • (a.ce.)

1. seed (fertilized grain)
2. grain, kernel
3. bead, pellet, seed-like thing

Derived terms

• အစေ့ခွံ (a.ce.hkwam)
• အစေ့ညှောက် (a.ce.hnyauk)
• အစေ့တည် (a.ce.tany)
• အစေ့ဖောက်ပိုး (a.ce.hpaukpui:)
• အစေ့မြှေး (a.ce.hmre:)
• အစေ့ယှက် (a.ce.hyak)
• အစေ့အိမ် (a.ce.im)

 

Etymology 2

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ စေ့ (ce., “to be thorough, put close together”).

Adverb

အစေ့ • (a.ce.)

1. closely, tightly, without a gap, without leaving a gap
2. in full, without leaving anyone or anything out

Derived terms

• အစုံအစေ့ (a.cum-a.ce.)
• အစေ့အင (a.ce.a.nga.)
• အစေ့အစပ် (a.ce.a.cap)

 

Further reading

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