Where does “ရှေ့တော်ခံ” come from?

ရှေ့တော်ခံ (Rakhine) comes from Burmese ရေ, from Old Burmese ရိယ်.

ရှေ့တော်ခံ (Rakhine): lawyer, attorney

Definitions

  1. lawyer, attorney

Ancestry of “ရှေ့တော်ခံ”, step by step

ရှေ့တော်ခံ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရေ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရေwater
2Old Burmeseရိယ်

via Burmese တော်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတော်clever, skillful; enough, sufficient; denotes...
2Burmeseတွက်to do or work out arithmetical sums; solve...

via Rakhine ခံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Rakhineခံ
Every word from Old Burmese ရိယ်Every word from Burmese ရေ