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—
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