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poongee

poongee is the alternative form of phongyi.

Meaning of phongyi

Noun

phongyi (plural phongyis or phongyi)

  1. A Buddhist monk.
    • The death of a Ponghee or president of a kyoung is regarded as a great event, and the funeral is conducted with pomp and ceremony. The body, being emboweled, and its juices pressed out, is filled with honey.1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam and China […]

Forms of poongee

pluralpoongees

Questions about poongee

What is poongee the alternative form of?
Poongee is the alternative form of phongyi.

Words near poongee in the dictionary

  1. Poonch
  2. pooned up
  3. pooner
  4. pooners
  5. poonga oil
  6. poongee
  7. poongees
  8. poonghie
  9. poonghies
  10. pooning up
  11. poonjah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poongee (page history and authors); phongyi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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