လီ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: li • ALA-LC: lī • BGN/PCGN: li • Okell: li

Adjective

လီ • (li)

1. in installments: in parts

Derived terms

• ခုနစ်ရက်ခုနစ်လီ (hku.nacrakhku.nacli)
• ဆယ့်နှစ်လီစနစ် (hcai.hnaclica.nac)
• ဆယ်လီကျေ (hcaili-kye)
• ဆယ်လီစနစ် (hcailica.nac)
• ဆယ်လီစိတ် (hcailicit)
• ဆယ်လီမူး (hcailimu:)
• ထွေလီကာလီ (htwelikali)
• ပွေလီ (pweli)
• ဖန်တလီဖန်တလာ (hpanta.lihpanta.la)
• ရှုပ်ထွေးပွေလီ (hruphtwe:pweli)
• လက်လီ (lakli)
• လက်လီစိတ် (laklicit)
• လုပ်လီလုပ်လဲ့ (lupliluplai.)
• ဝေလီဝေလင်း (weliwelang:)
• အလီ (a.li)
• အလီလီ (a.lili)
• အလီလီအလာလာ (a.lilia.lala)

Classifier

လီ • (li)

1. numerical classifier for counting multiples, frequencies

Further reading

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

Eastern Pwo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen [Term?]. Cognates include S'gaw Karen ကလံၤ (ka leē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li˩˩]

Noun

လီ (lì)

1. air

Etymology 2

From Proto-Karen *k/s-lejᴬ. Cognates include S'gaw Karen သလံၤ (tha leē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li˩˩]

Noun

လီ (lì)

1. leech

Etymology 3

From Proto-Karen *lejᴬ. Cognates include S'gaw Karen လံၤ (leē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [li˩˩]

Noun

လီ (lì)

1. grandchild

References

• A. Kato (2009) “A Basic Vocabulary of Htoklibang Pwo Karen with Hpa-an, Kyonbyaw, and Proto-Pwo Karen Forms”, in Asian and African Languages and Linguistics, volume 4, page 39
• Saw Mervin Myat Kyaw et. al. “လီ”, in Karen (Pwo) - Burmese - English dictionary, Phrakhanong: Karen (Pwo) Dictionary Compiling Committee, page 174

Mon

Etymology

Compare Burmese လိမ် (lim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɯːm/

• Audio:

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Verb

လီ (liṃ)

1. to lie (to give false information intentionally with intent to deceive)

Rakhine

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese လိယ်, from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s/ʔ-ləy¹, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ləj. Cognate with Burmese လေ (le).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lï/

Noun

လီ (transliteration needed)

1. air

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː˨˦/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *ɗɤjᴬ (“good”). Cognate with Thai ดี (dii), Northern Thai ᨯᩦ (di), Lao ດີ (dī), Lü ᦡᦲ (ḋii), Ahom 𑜓𑜣 (dī), 𑜃𑜣 (nī) or 𑜑𑜣 (hī), Bouyei ndil, Zhuang ndei.

Adjective

လီ • (lǐi) (abstract noun တၢင်းလီ)

1. good

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tai *ɓliːᴬ (“gallbladder; bile”). Cognate with Thai ดี (dii), Lao ບີ (bī), Ahom 𑜓𑜣 (dī) or 𑜎𑜣 (lī), Zhuang mbei; Compare Eastern Pwo လီႋ (lī).

Noun

လီ • (lǐi)

1. gallbladder; bile.