နောင်

Burmese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nàʊɴ/

Romanization: MLCTS: naung • ALA-LC: noṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: naung • Okell: nauñ

Adjective

နောင် • (naung)

(literary) next (day, year, etc.)

Usage notes

Burmese is a diglossic language. This construct is used exclusively in the formal, literary (written) register. See synonyms for the informal, colloquial (spoken) equivalent form(s).

Synonyms

နောက် (nauk) (informal, colloquial)

Noun

နောင် • (naung)

(dated, regional) elder brother of a male (primarily used in compound words)

Usage notes

The term has largely been displaced by အစ်ကို (ackui), which in pre-colonial times referenced the elder brother of a female.

Derived terms

ကြေးနောင် (kre:naung)
ညီနောင် (nyinaung)
တူသားနောင်မယ် (tusa:naungmai)
နောင်ကြီး (naungkri:)

References

“နောင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Tavoyan

Noun

နောင် (transliteration needed)

(honorific) Form of address for younger men

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