Where does “ဘုရားကိုးဆူ” come from?

ဘုရားကိုးဆူ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဆူ, from Monumbo tsu, from Japanese 津 — cove, inlet, outlet; harbor, port; harbour.

ဘုရားကိုးဆူ (Burmese): nine deities represented by the Buddha and the eight Arhats

Definitions

  1. nine deities represented by the Buddha and the eight Arhats

Ancestry of “ဘုရားကိုးဆူ”, step by step

ဘုရားကိုးဆူ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဆူ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဆူto boil, come to a boiling stage
2Monumbotsuwater
3Japanese津cove, inlet, outlet; harbor, port; harbour

via Burmese ဘုရား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseဘုရားBuddha; pagoda, stupa, Buddhist temple; royal and...
2Sanskritवर पूजार्हvenerable enclosure

via Burmese ကိုး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကိုးnine; to trust in, rely on; to refer to
2Proto-Sino-Tibetand/s-kəwnine
Every word from Japanese 津 →Every word from Monumbo tsu →Every word from Burmese ဆူ →