ကရေင်

Mon

Alternative forms

• ကရေၚ်

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) IPA^(key): /kə.reaŋ/
• (Thailand) IPA^(key): /ka.reaŋ/

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Proper noun

ကရေင် (kareṅ)

1. Karen, Kayin (name of one of Tibeto-burman speaking national groups of the Union of Burma)

Derived terms

• ကရေၚ်ဗၟာ (kareṅbmā, “S'gaw Karen”)
• ကရေၚ်မန် (kareṅman, “Pwo Karen”)
• ကရေင်သကဵု (“S'gaw Karen”)
• ကရေင်ပဳုဲ (“Pwo Karen”)
• သၞေဟ်ကရေင် (“Hnitkarin”)

Descendants

• → Burmese: ကရင် (ka.rang)
  • → English: Karen
• → Thai: กะเหรี่ยง (gà-rìiang)

Trivia

This word sounds very similar to ကြေၚ် (“Eugenia tree”); the specimen here is indistinguishable.