Where does “ခိုးစား” come from?

ခိုးစား (Burmese) comes from Burmese စား — to eat; to divide.

ခိုးစား (Burmese): to make a living by stealing

Definitions

  1. to make a living by stealing

Ancestry of “ခိုးစား”, step by step

ခိုးစား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese စား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစားto eat; to divide

via Burmese ခိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခိုးto steal, pilfer, burgle
Every word from Burmese စား