ကေ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kè/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ke • ALA-LC: ke • BGN/PCGN: ke • Okell: kei

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa).

Noun

ကေ • (ke)

1. hair

Derived terms

• ဗိုလ်ကေ (builke, “cropped hair”)

 

Proper noun

ကေ • (ke)

1. a female given name from Pali

Etymology 2

From English kay.

Noun

ကေ • (ke)

1. the Latin letter K/k.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ke (Latin script)
• 𑀓𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• के (Devanagari script)
• কে (Bengali script)
• කෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ၵေ (Burmese script)
• เก (Thai script)
• ᨠᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເກ (Lao script)
• កេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ကေ

1. Burmese script form of ke, which is nominative/accusative plural of က (ka, “who (m.)”)

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *keᴬ (“tiger”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *khe⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(e/ə)j (“tiger”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခ့ (khay).

Pronunciation

• (Northern & Southern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /ke̤³¹/

Noun

ကေ (transliteration needed)

1. tiger