ဒီ

See also: ဒ, ဒေါ်, ဒါ, ဒဳ, and ဒူး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: di • ALA-LC: dī • BGN/PCGN: di • Okell: di

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-daj ~ m-di (“that; this”). Cognate with Tibetan དེ (de, “that”), འདི ('di, “this”), Chinese 是 (OC *djeʔ, “this”) (STEDT).

Alternative forms

• သည် (sany), ဤ (i) — literary

Determiner

ဒီ • (di)

1. (colloquial) this

Derived terms

• ဒီမှာ (dihma, “here”)
• ဒီဟာ (diha, “this one”)
• အဲဒီ (ai:di, “that”)

 

See also

• ဒါ (da)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mon ဒီ.

Noun

ဒီ • (di)

1. tide

Derived terms

• ဒီချောင်း (dihkyaung:)
• ဒီပိုး (dipui:)
• ဒီရေ (dire)
• ဒီလှိုင်း (dihluing:)
• ဒီလုံး (dilum:)

 

Etymology 3

From English dee.

Noun

ဒီ • (di)

1. the Latin letter D/d

Further reading

• “ဒီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “ဒီ” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

Cognate with Western Pwo ဒီၩ.

Noun

ဒီ • (daw)

1. knife.