“teak” in Sgaw Karen
ပဟံၣ်
pa hèe
teak
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“teak” is written ပဟံၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pa hèe. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ရံကး ကွၢ်တၢ်ဝးဝး အဲၣ်ဒီးထံၣ်အဲၣ်ဒီးသ့ၣ်ညါ "ဖဲအံၤလီၤဆီန့ၢ်ပဟံၣ်ပဃီလီၤ" တံတိ ဆုးလီၤအခိၣ်ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးအုး “မ့ၢ်!” ထံ တအိၣ် သ့ၣ်ဝၣ်တအိၣ် ဒီးတၢ်ကိၢ်ဒိၣ်မးလီၤfrom “The Amazing Adventure”