ngapi

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.
 * 2) * 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
 * The rivers and lakes abound with fish, from which the inhabitants prepare their favourite condiment of ngapee.
 * 1) * 1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: "Nga-pee":
 * Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.
 * Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Burmese:
 * Indonesian:
 * Khmer:
 * Lao: ກະປິ
 * Malay: belacan
 * Mon: နဲကဲကၠောန်ခရံက်
 * Shan: ပႃၼဝ်ႈၵုင်ႈ
 * Tagalog: bagoong,
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:

Pronoun

 * 1) I; the first person singular emphatic personal pronoun.

Adjective

 * 1) how many?

Usage notes
Follows the noun and behaves like a normal adjective; for example, ? ("how many houses?").