shikho

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noun

A kneeling posture with joined hands and bowed head, used in Burma to show respect to a superior.

OriginBurmese ရှိခိုး →
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Meanings

nounshikho (plural shikhos)

plural shikhos

  1. A kneeling posture with joined hands and bowed head, used in Burma to show respect to a superior.
verbshikho (third-person singular simple present shikhos, present participle shikhoing, simple past and past participle shikhoed)

present singular third person shikhos · participle present shikhoing · participle past shikhoed · past shikhoed

  1. transitiveTo show respect to (a person, etc.) by adopting this posture.

Origin

  1. Burmeseရှိခိုး
  2. Englishshikho

From Burmese ရှိခိုး (hri.hkui:).

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