Where does “ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်” come from?

ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဝန်ကြီး, from Burmese ကြီး — big; large; great (in magnitude); high (in degree).

ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် (Burmese): prime minister

Definitions

ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Burmese	ဝန်ကြီး	minister
2	Burmese	ကြီး	big; large; great (in magnitude); high (in degree)

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Burmese	ချုပ်	to sew; to confine, to detain; to control, to...