Where does “ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ” come from?
ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ (S'gaw Karen) comes from Burmese ဖ, from Burmese ပိ — to be pressed, to be flattened, to be crushed.
ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ (S'gaw Karen): orchid
Definitions
- orchid
Ancestry of “ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ”, step by step
ဖီသ့ၣ်ခံ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese ဖ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | ဖ | Pha, the 23rd letter of the Burmese alphabet |
| 2 | Burmese | ပိ | to be pressed, to be flattened, to be crushed |
via S'gaw Karen သ့ၣ်ခံ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S'gaw Karen | သ့ၣ်ခံ | — |