nun meaning in Myanmar
သီလရှင် sila.hrang
/nʌn/
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nun in Myanmar: သီလရှင် (sila.hrang), ဘိက္ခုနီ (bhikhku.ni). In English, nun means a member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
Myanmar words for nun
- member of a non-Christian religious community of women
- သီလရှင် sila.hrang, ဘိက္ခုနီ bhikhku.ni
English meaning of nun
- noun A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
- noun A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- noun A prostitute.
- noun A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
Synonyms of nun
nun in other languages
Questions about nun in Myanmar
- What is the meaning of nun in Myanmar?
- Nun in Myanmar is သီလရှင် (sila.hrang), ဘိက္ခုနီ (bhikhku.ni).
- nun ရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်က ဘာလဲ။
- Nun: သီလရှင် (sila.hrang), ဘိက္ခုနီ (bhikhku.ni).
- What does nun mean in English?
- Nun means a member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
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