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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

parabaik

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
parabaik
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The traditional form of paper in Burma, made of daphne bark agglutinated into a kind of pasteboard and blackened with charcoal paste, then folded and written on with a steatite pencil.

noun

A document or drawing executed on this kind of paper.

Etymology

Borrowing from Burmese ပုရပိုက် (pu.ra.puik).

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ပုရပိုက်

Inflected Forms

parabaiks (plural) parabeik (alternative) parabike (alternative)

Questions

What does parabaik mean?
The traditional form of paper in Burma, made of daphne bark agglutinated into a kind of pasteboard and blackened with charcoal paste, then folded and written on with a steatite pencil.
Where does parabaik come from?
Borrowing from Burmese ပုရပိုက် (pu.ra.puik).

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