Where does “ပဲကတ္တီပါ” come from?

ပဲကတ္တီပါ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ကတ္တီပါ, from Arabic قَطِيفَة — plush, velvet.

ပဲကတ္တီပါ (Burmese): variety of smooth tasting, slightly bitter lablab (Dolichos lablab)

Definitions

  1. variety of smooth tasting, slightly bitter lablab (Dolichos lablab)

Ancestry of “ပဲကတ္တီပါ”, step by step

ပဲကတ္တီပါ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ကတ္တီပါ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကတ္တီပါvelvet
2Arabicقَطِيفَةplush, velvet

via Burmese ပဲ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပဲpea, bean, legume, pulse; anna
Every word from Arabic قَطِيفَة →Every word from Burmese ကတ္တီပါ →