စီး

• IPA^(key): /sí/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ci: • ALA-LC: cī″ • BGN/PCGN: si: • Okell: sì

စီး • (ci:)

1. to flow (move as a fluid)

Classifier:

• Phonetic respellings: စီး, ဇီး
• IPA^(key): /sí/, /zí/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ci: • ALA-LC: cī″ • BGN/PCGN: si:/zi: • Okell: sì/sì

Verb:

• IPA^(key): /sí/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ci: • ALA-LC: cī″ • BGN/PCGN: si: • Okell: sì

စီး • (ci:)

1. numerical classifier for vehicles
   • 2006, Gene Mesher, Burmese for Beginners, p. 114:

     ကား နှစ်စီး ရှိတယ်။

     ka: hnacci: hri.tai||

     [I] have two cars.

စီး • (ci:)

1. to ride on (a vehicle)

In the classifier, the voiceless variant /sí/ occurs after /ʔ/; the voiced variant /zí/ after vowels and /ɴ/.

• “စီး 1 ‘ride on’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 376.
• “စီး 2 ‘flow’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 377.
• “စီး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.