"ကေ" meaning in All languages combined

See ကေ on Wiktionary

Proper name [Burmese]

IPA: /kè/ Forms: ke [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa). Etymology templates: {{bor+|my|pi|kesa}} Borrowed from Pali kesa, {{doublet|my|ကေသ|ကေသာ}} Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa) Head templates: {{head|my|proper noun|head=|sort=|tr=}} ကေ • (ke), {{my-proper noun}} ကေ • (ke)
  1. a female given name from Pali
    Sense id: en-ကေ-my-name-EPGBtf88 Categories (other): Burmese female given names, Burmese given names, Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 90 7 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 86 10 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 5 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Burmese]

IPA: /kè/ Forms: ke [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa). Etymology templates: {{bor+|my|pi|kesa}} Borrowed from Pali kesa, {{doublet|my|ကေသ|ကေသာ}} Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa) Head templates: {{my-noun}} ကေ • (ke)
  1. hair Derived forms: ဗိုလ်ကေ (builke) (english: cropped hair)
    Sense id: en-ကေ-my-noun-TcIVm7oF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Burmese]

IPA: /kè/ Forms: ke [romanization]
Etymology: From English kay. Etymology templates: {{bor|my|en|kay}} English kay Head templates: {{my-noun}} ကေ • (ke)
  1. the Latin letter K/k.
    Sense id: en-ကေ-my-noun-xteCA0~R
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Pa'o Karen]

IPA: /ke̤³¹/ (note: Northern & Southern Pa'o)
Etymology: From Proto-Karen *keᴬ (“tiger”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *khe⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(e/ə)j (“tiger”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen ခ့ (khay). Etymology templates: {{inh|blk|kar-pro|*keᴬ||tiger}} Proto-Karen *keᴬ (“tiger”), {{inh|blk|sit-pro|*d-k(e/ə)j||tiger}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-k(e/ə)j (“tiger”), {{cog|ksw|ခ့}} S'gaw Karen ခ့ (khay) Head templates: {{head|blk|noun}} ကေ (transliteration needed)
  1. tiger
    Sense id: en-ကေ-blk-noun-8VwWuZ-C Categories (other): Pa'o Karen entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Felids

Pronoun [Pali]

Head templates: {{head|pi|pronoun form|cat2=interrogative pronouns|tr=-}} ကေ
  1. Burmese script form of ke, which is nominative/accusative plural of က (ka, “who (m.)”) Tags: Burmese, character, form-of Form of: ke (extra: (ka, “who (m.)”)), which is nominative/accusative plural of က (extra: (ka, “who (m.)”))
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    },
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        "3": "ကေသာ"
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        }
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        "hair"
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    {
      "ipa": "/kè/"
    }
  ],
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          "parents": [],
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          "_dis": "90 7 3",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "92 5 2",
          "kind": "other",
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        ]
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      "ipa": "/kè/"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "inh"
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "name": "Felids",
          "orig": "blk:Felids",
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      "ipa": "/ke̤³¹/",
      "note": "Northern & Southern Pa'o"
    }
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    "Burmese terms derived from Pali",
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    }
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  "word": "ကေ"
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  "word": "ကေ"
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    }
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        "5": "tiger"
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      "expansion": "ကေ",
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        "Burmese script form of ke, which is nominative/accusative plural of က (ka, “who (m.)”)"
      ],
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          "ke",
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        ],
        [
          "က",
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          "ka",
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        ]
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        "character",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကေ"
}

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