မိုး
moe
The English word "mom" is translated into Karen as မိုး (moe).
မိုး is an informal way to refer to a person's mother.
How do you pronounce it?
The romanization is moe.
Did you know?
- In the Karen language, the word မိုး is a homonym that also means 'sky' or 'rain'. Depending on the tone and context, the same sound can refer to one's mother or the heavens.
- The S'gaw Karen dialect, where မိုး is used, is one of several distinct Karen languages that are not always mutually intelligible.
- The Karen script used to write မိုး is an abugida, meaning that consonants carry an inherent vowel that must be changed with marks for different sounds.
Example conversation
Two friends are talking about their families.
- စောစော Saw Sawမိုး နၤ အိၣ်ဘျီၣ်တမ့ၢၣ်လဲာ်။mo na eit bee t mae lauIs your mom here?
- ကေကေ Kay Kayအူၣ်, မိုး အိၣ်တဲၣ်လီၤ။oo, mo eit te leeYes, mom is in the room.
- စောစော Saw Sawမိုး အိၣ်နီၣ်တုာ်လဲာ်။mo eit nee toh lauIs mom busy?
- ကေကေ Kay Kayတမ့ၢၣ်ဘၣ်, မိုး မမ့ၢၣ်ဘျီၣ်လီၤ။ta mae bah, mo ma mae bee leeNo, mom is not busy.
