သူမ

From သူ (su, “he”) + -မ (-ma., “feminine”). Likely coined as a female third-person pronoun under influence from European languages, similar to 她 (tā).


ကျွန်မ

From ကျွန် (kywan, “slave”) + -မ (-ma., “feminine”).


ကျောင်းသူ

From ကျောင်း (kyaung:, “school”) + -သူ (-su, “female resident, inhabitant, member”).

suffix

student (female), pupil (female), schoolgirl


သူ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *su ~ s-lu (“who; indefinite pronoun; remote third-person pronoun”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སུ (su, “who”), as well as လူ (lu, “person”).

inh

word used to designate the nature of a female's status, locality

used by females when addressing another female of same age


ဒေါ်

my-noun

ဒေါ် • (dau)

ဒေါ် အောင် ဆန်း စု ကြည်
dau aung hcan: cu. krany
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

(honorific) Respectful form of address for older women; madam

ဒေါ်ဒေါ်

daudau, respectful form of address for older women


သမီး

particle suffixed to a noun to denote a kindred relation not founded on blood


မိန်းမ

မိန်းမ • (min:ma.) (classifier ယောက် or ဦး)

ma. (romanization)
ယောက် (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

Inherited from Old Burmese မိယ်မ (miy ma). The first element is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n (“people, man, human being”), which is cognate with Chinese 民 (mín, “people, men”), while the second element is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“female, mother, principal part”) (STEDT), which appears connected to *mow (“woman”).
An outdated folk etymology claimed that the word was derived from မီးမာ (mi:ma, “burned scar”). Traditional Burmese-Buddhist origin myth says that proto-women got burned scars after they fell from celestial grace.


အမေ

→ Mon: အမေ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မေ (me, “term of endearment for a female”).


အမိ

From အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မိ (mi., “mother”).

term of address for a woman as old as one's mother

term of address for a woman of the same age or younger than one


ညီမ

ညီ (nyi, “younger brother”) + -မ (-ma., “female”).


အမ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မ (ma., “female”).


ဇနီး

Borrowed from Sanskrit जनी (janī, “bride, daughter-in-law”), perhaps via Hindi.


ဝမ်းဆွဲ

ဝမ်း (wam:, “womb”) + ဆွဲ (hcwai:, “pulling”)


လက်သည်

လက် (lak, “arm”) + -သည် (-sany, “practitioner”)


နွားမ

နွား (nwa:, “cow”) + -မ (-ma., “female”)


မြေးမ

မြေး (mre:, “grandchild”) + -မ (-ma., feminine suffix)


အဘွား

အ- (a.-) + ဘွား (bhwa:), the latter element from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *pʷa-n (“grandmother”)


သန္ဓေ

Borrowed from Pali paṭisandhi (“reincarnation; conception”).


ကလျာ

Contraction of ကလျာဏီ (ka.lyani), borrowed from Pali kalyāṇī.


ယောက်မ

sister-in-law, specifically brother's wife or husband's sister


မရီး

sister-in-law, specifically elder brother's wife or wife's elder sister


ခယ်မ

sister-in-law, specifically younger brother's wife or wife's younger sister


ဒေါ်ကြီး

aunt, specifically mother's elder sister


ဒေါ်လေး

my-noun

ဒေါ်လေး • (daule:)

aunt, specifically mother's younger sister


အရီးကြီး

aunt, specifically father's elder sister


အရီး

Compare with Chinese 阿姨 (āyí, “aunt; mother's sister”).


အရီးလေး

aunt, specifically father's younger sister


ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်

/kòjwʊ̀ɴsʰàʊɴ/


ကိုယ်ဝန်

my-noun

ကိုယ်ဝန် • (kuiywan)

ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body, torso”) + ဝန် (wan, “burden, load”).


ဓမ္မတာဝန်

/dəmədàwʊ̀ɴ/

From Pali dhammatā (“general rule; nature”) + ဝန် (wan).


ဗိုက်ကြီး

my-verb

ဗိုက်ကြီး • (buikkri:)

ဗိုက် (buik, “stomach”) + ကြီး (kri:, “grow”)


မီးယပ်

→ Shan: မီးယၢပ်ႈ (míi yāap)


ညီအစ်မ

Dvandva compound of ညီ (nyi, “younger brother”) + အစ်မ (acma., “elder sister”)


အစ်မ

The first syllable, အစ် (ac), is likely from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔwyik (“elder sibling”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ʔik (“older brother”), and cognate with the second syllable of Akha [script needed] (a-yui, “elder sibling”) (see also အစ်ကို (ackui, “elder brother”)). The second syllable, မ (ma.), means "female"; see it for more. It also bears resemblance to various Sino-Tibetan words for "sister" starting with an initial "m-", including Proto-Tani *me (“elder sister”) and Old Chinese 妹 (OC *mɯːds, “younger sister”).


ကြီးကြီး

ဒေါ်ကြီး ဒေါ်ကြီး#Burmese

(dialect) Myeik form of ဒေါ်ကြီး (dau-kri:)


မိငယ်

မိထွေး မိထွေး#Burmese

(dialect) Myeik form of မိထွေး (mi.htwe:)


ကလျာဏီ

Borrowed from Pali kalyāṇī, Sanskrit कल्याणी (kalyāṇī, “beneficial one; beautiful one”).


ရှင်မွေ့

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

(Buddhism, honorific, regional, Danu) Synonym of မယ်တော် (maitau, “mother (of Buddhist sāmaṇeras)”)


အဒေါ်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဒေါ် (dau, “honorific prefix for women”).

af

aunt (specifically, younger sister of one's mother)


မေကြီး

အဘွား အဘွား#Burmese

(regional, Danu) Synonym of အဘွား (a.bhwa:, “grandmother”)


မမ

(colloquial, honorific) term of endearment for females


မီးဖွားခွင့်

/mípʰwákʰwɪ̰ɴ/

မီးဖွား (mi:hpwa:, “to give birth, deliver a child”) + ခွင့် (hkwang., “leave”)


အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ

From အမျိုးသမီး (a.myui:sa.mi:) + ဝါဒ (wada.).