မုၢ်နံၤဖိ
mu ni hpi
The Karen word for birthday is မုၢ်နံၤဖိ (mu ni hpi).
This noun refers to an anniversary.
Meaning: anniversary (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
mu ni hpi
Did you know?
- Depending on the region, the 'birthday' may be aligned with the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, shifting the date of the မုၢ်နံၤဖိ each year.
- In certain traditional contexts, rather than saying 'Happy Birthday', one might use phrases wishing for 'many days' of life and health.
- The word မုၢ် (mu) is a versatile root used across many different Karen terms relating to both light and the passage of time.
Example conversation
Nunu and Saw Boe are talking about a party.
- နုနု Nu Nuစောဘေ, မုၢ်နံၤဖိ မုၢ်နံၤSaw Boe, mu nee phi mu neeSaw Boe, happy birthday!
- စောဘေ Saw Baeတဘျုးမုာ် နုနုta byu mhu Nu NuThank you, Nunu.
- နုနု Nu Nuနမုၢ်နံၤဖိ မုၢ်နံၤနီၣ်နံၤနီၣ်na mu nee phi mu nee nee nee neeWhat day is your birthday?
- စောဘေ Saw Baeမုၢ်နံၤဖိ ယမုၢ်နံၤနီၣ်mu nee phi ya mu nee neeMy birthday is today.
