"ဖို့" meaning in Burmese

See ဖို့ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

IPA: /pʰo̰/, /bo̰/ Forms: hpui. [romanization]
Etymology templates: {{cog|bo|ཕྱོགས|t=direction; for the sake of}} Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”) Head templates: {{my-particle}} ဖို့ • (hpui.)
  1. (colloquial) in order to, to (indicating purpose) Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-particle-qEmK8-p1 Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 16 25 7 21 6 26
  2. particle employed in forming gerunds
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-particle-4KJHVTYV Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Burmese particles, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 16 25 7 21 6 26 Disambiguation of Burmese particles: 18 53 4 9 6 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 42 6 13 1 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 47 5 11 1 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: အတွက် (a.twak) [formal, literary], ရန် (english: ran) [formal, literary], အလို့ငှါ (a.lui.hnga) [formal, literary], အံ့သောငှါ (am.sau:hnga) [formal, literary], အောင် (aung) [colloquial, informal]
Etymology number: 2

Postposition

IPA: /pʰo̰/, /bo̰/ Forms: hpui. [romanization]
Etymology templates: {{cog|bo|ཕྱོགས|t=direction; for the sake of}} Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”) Head templates: {{my-postp}} ဖို့ • (hpui.)
  1. Alternative form of အဖို့ (a.hpui., “to, for”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: အဖို့ (extra: a.hpui., “to, for”) Derived forms: ငါ့ဖို့ (nga.hpui.), နေ့ဖို့ညစာ (ne.hpui.nya.ca)
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-postp-j3ZdiCcN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /pʰo̰/ Forms: hpui. [romanization]
Etymology: Causative form of ပို့ (pui., “to be piled”). Head templates: {{my-verb}} ဖို့ • (hpui.), {{my-verb-set|ပို့|ဖို့}}
  1. to heap, pile on, build (a dyke, embankment, dam, etc.)
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-verb-3ml-gBLk Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 16 25 7 21 6 26
  2. to fill (a cavity)
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-verb-TFy9Xag7
  3. to heap, pile on (blame)
    Sense id: en-ဖို့-my-verb-gK5j3bta Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Burmese postpositions Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 16 25 7 21 6 26 Disambiguation of Burmese postpositions: 17 23 11 11 7 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ဖို့မြေ (hpui.mre), အပြစ်ဖို့ (a.prachpui.)
Etymology number: 1
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "hpui.mre",
      "word": "ဖို့မြေ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "a.prachpui.",
      "word": "အပြစ်ဖို့"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Causative form of ပို့ (pui., “to be piled”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ပို့",
        "2": "ဖို့"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "my-verb-set"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 25 7 21 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to heap, pile on, build (a dyke, embankment, dam, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-verb-3ml-gBLk",
      "links": [
        [
          "heap",
          "heap"
        ],
        [
          "pile on",
          "pile on"
        ],
        [
          "build",
          "build"
        ],
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
        [
          "embankment",
          "embankment"
        ],
        [
          "dam",
          "dam"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to fill (a cavity)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-verb-TFy9Xag7",
      "links": [
        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "cavity",
          "cavity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 25 7 21 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 23 11 11 7 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese postpositions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to heap, pile on (blame)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-verb-gK5j3bta",
      "links": [
        [
          "heap",
          "heap"
        ],
        [
          "blame",
          "blame"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "ཕྱོགས",
        "t": "direction; for the sake of"
      },
      "expansion": "Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 25 7 21 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What do you plan to do?",
          "roman": "bhaluphpui. a.cia.cany hri.sa.lai:||",
          "text": "ဘာလုပ်ဖို့ အစီအစဉ် ရှိသလဲ။",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              21,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "english": "You have to read a lot in order for your mind to grow.",
          "roman": "a.twe:a.hkau rang.sanhpui. ca mya:mya: hpatsang.||",
          "text": "အတွေးအခေါ် ရင့်သန်ဖို့ စာ များများ ဖတ်သင့်။",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in order to, to (indicating purpose)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-particle-qEmK8-p1",
      "links": [
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) in order to, to (indicating purpose)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 25 7 21 6 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 53 4 9 6 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 42 6 13 1 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 47 5 11 1 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "particle employed in forming gerunds"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-particle-4KJHVTYV"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "a.twak",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အတွက်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "ran",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ရန်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "a.lui.hnga",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အလို့ငှါ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "am.sau:hnga",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အံ့သောငှါ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "aung",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "အောင်"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "ཕྱོགས",
        "t": "direction; for the sake of"
      },
      "expansion": "Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-postp"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "postp",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a.hpui., “to, for”",
          "word": "အဖို့"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "nga.hpui.",
          "word": "ငါ့ဖို့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ne.hpui.nya.ca",
          "word": "နေ့ဖို့ညစာ"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "a pair of sandals for the child",
          "roman": "ka.le:hpui. hpi.napta.ran",
          "text": "ကလေးဖို့ ဖိနပ်တရန်",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of အဖို့ (a.hpui., “to, for”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ဖို့-my-postp-j3ZdiCcN",
      "links": [
        [
          "အဖို့",
          "အဖို့#Burmese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese postpositions",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "hpui.mre",
      "word": "ဖို့မြေ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "a.prachpui.",
      "word": "အပြစ်ဖို့"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "Causative form of ပို့ (pui., “to be piled”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ပို့",
        "2": "ဖို့"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "my-verb-set"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to heap, pile on, build (a dyke, embankment, dam, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heap",
          "heap"
        ],
        [
          "pile on",
          "pile on"
        ],
        [
          "build",
          "build"
        ],
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
        [
          "embankment",
          "embankment"
        ],
        [
          "dam",
          "dam"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to fill (a cavity)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "cavity",
          "cavity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to heap, pile on (blame)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heap",
          "heap"
        ],
        [
          "blame",
          "blame"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese postpositions",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "ཕྱོགས",
        "t": "direction; for the sake of"
      },
      "expansion": "Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Burmese colloquialisms",
        "Burmese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              10
            ]
          ],
          "english": "What do you plan to do?",
          "roman": "bhaluphpui. a.cia.cany hri.sa.lai:||",
          "text": "ဘာလုပ်ဖို့ အစီအစဉ် ရှိသလဲ။",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              21,
              26
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "english": "You have to read a lot in order for your mind to grow.",
          "roman": "a.twe:a.hkau rang.sanhpui. ca mya:mya: hpatsang.||",
          "text": "အတွေးအခေါ် ရင့်သန်ဖို့ စာ များများ ဖတ်သင့်။",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in order to, to (indicating purpose)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "in order to",
          "in order to"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) in order to, to (indicating purpose)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "particle employed in forming gerunds"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "a.twak",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အတွက်"
    },
    {
      "english": "ran",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "ရန်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "a.lui.hnga",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အလို့ငှါ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "am.sau:hnga",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "အံ့သောငှါ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "aung",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "အောင်"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese postpositions",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "nga.hpui.",
      "word": "ငါ့ဖို့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ne.hpui.nya.ca",
      "word": "နေ့ဖို့ညစာ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bo",
        "2": "ཕྱོགས",
        "t": "direction; for the sake of"
      },
      "expansion": "Tibetan ཕྱོགས (phyogs, “direction; for the sake of”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hpui.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ဖို့ • (hpui.)",
      "name": "my-postp"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "postp",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a.hpui., “to, for”",
          "word": "အဖို့"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Burmese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "a pair of sandals for the child",
          "roman": "ka.le:hpui. hpi.napta.ran",
          "text": "ကလေးဖို့ ဖိနပ်တရန်",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of အဖို့ (a.hpui., “to, for”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "အဖို့",
          "အဖို့#Burmese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰo̰/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ဖို့"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Burmese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.