“to be low, short” in Sgaw Karen
ဖုၣ်
hpù
to be low, short
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to be low, short” is written ဖုၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpù. 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
စိဖံယူၤထီထီၣ်ဒီးတဲဝဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ် ယကမၤန့ၣ်ထံဆၢလၢအအါကတၢၢ်!" အဝဲယူၤဖုၣ်လီၤဒီးမၤန့ၢ်ထံဆၢလၢဖီတဖီးဘၣ်တဖီးအအိၣ် အဝဲတကနၣ်ဃုာ်ကနဲအဂၤဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီစိဖံကအီကွၢ်ဖီအထံဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤဆှိလီၤနခိၣ် ယကတဲဘၣ်နၤ လၢၢ်ကတိၤတၢ် ဖုၣ်လီၤတစဲး လီၤကဒီးတစဲး ကဆီဖိဆှိလီၤအသး ဖုၢ်လီၤကဒီး တုၤfrom “Curious Baby Elephant”