ဗမာ

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ဗမာ • (ba.ma) (induced creaky tone form ဗမာ့)

→ Arabic: بُورْمَا (burmā)

→ Armenian: Բիրմա (Birma)

→ Azerbaijani: Birma

→ Belarusian: Бі́рма (Bírma)

→ Bengali: বার্মা (barma)

→ Bulgarian: Би́рма (Bírma)

→ Catalan: Birmània

→ Czech: Barma

→ Danish: Burma

→ Dutch: Birma

→ English: Burma

→ Esperanto: Birmo

→ Estonian: Birma

→ Finnish: Burma

→ French: Birmanie

→ Galician: Birmania

→ Georgian: ბირმა (birma)

→ German: Birma

→ Greek: Βιρμανία (Virmanía)

→ Hebrew: בורמה (burma)

→ Hindi: बरमा (barmā)

→ Icelandic: Búrma

→ Ido: Burma

→ Indonesian: Birma

→ Interlingua: Birmania

→ Irish: Burma

→ Italian: Birmania

→ Japanese: ビルマ (Biruma)

→ Kalenjin: Bama

→ Khmer: ភូមា (phuumiə)

→ Kikuyu: Bama

→ Korean: 버마 (Beoma)

→ Lao: ພະມ້າ (pha mā)

→ Latvian: Birma

→ Lithuanian: Birma

→ Luhya: Bama

→ Luo: Bama

→ Macedonian: Бурма (Burma)

→ Maltese: Burma

→ Maori: Pēma

→ Meru: Bama

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→ Mon: ဗၟာ, ဗမာ

→ Mon: ဗၟာ, ဗမာ

→ Norwegian: Burma

→ Persian: برمه (berme)

→ Polish: Birma

→ Portuguese: Birmânia

→ Romanian: Birmania

→ Russian: Би́рма (Bírma)

→ Serbo-Croatian: Bȗrma

→ Sinhalese: බුරුමය (burumaya)

→ Spanish: Birmania

→ Swahili: Bama

→ Swedish: Burma

→ Thai: พม่า (pá-mâa)

→ Tibetan: བྷར་མ། (bhar ma)

→ Turkish: Birmanya

→ Turkmen: Birma

→ Ukrainian: Бі́рма (Bírma)

→ Urdu: برما (barmā)

→ Uyghur: بىرما (birma)

→ Uzbek: Birma

Derived from မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar”):
: မြန်မာ /mjàɴmà/ → မြန်မာ /mjəmà/ (vowel reduction) → ဗမာ /bəmà/ (dissimilation of initial /m/)

ဗမာနိုင်ငံ

ဗမာပြည်

ဗမာစာ

ဗမစာ

ဗမာဘာသာ ― ba.mabhasa ― Burmese language

ဗမာစကား ― ba.maca.ka: ― Burmese language

ဗမစကား ― ba.ma.ca.ka: ― Burmese language

Burma (a country in Southeast Asia); Burmese


ကုလား

→ English: kalar

→ Shan: ၵလႃး (kǎ láa)

→ Khmer: កុឡា (kolaa), កូឡា (koulaa)

Borrowed from Pali kula (“clan; family; household”). Doublet of ကုလ (ku.la.).

bor+

Indians and persons of South Asian ancestry

(slang, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) a Bengali person; a Rohingya person; a Muslim, especially someone of South Asian origin.

(dated) Term used to describe all Westerners


ဝ

Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.


ဝ

→ English: Wa

→ Shan: ဝႃႉ (wâ̰a)


ဝ

According to Hill 2019, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-rwa (“taro, yam, tuber”); see Old Chinese 芋 (OC *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas, “taro”) for more.

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Amorphophallus campanulata
Amorphophallus campanulata#Translingual

elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus campanulata)


ဝ

Borrowed from Hokkien 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).

(slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)


ထားဝယ်

→ Thai: ทวาย (tá-waai)

→ Lao: ທະວາຍ (tha wāi)

→ Shan: ထဝႄႇ (thǎ wàae)

→ Khmer: ថ្វាយ (thvaay)

→ Japanese: ダウェー (dawē)

Borrowed from Mon ထဝဲါ (“to sit cross-legged”), in reference to what the Buddha did in the air over the place according to Mūlamūlī (မူလမူလီ), a Mon book on cosmogony or to his sitting posture. See also Burmese ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ (htak-waihpwai.hkwe, “to sit cross-legged”).

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ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး

(~လူမျိုး) Tavoyan people; whose language has been regarded as a dialect of Burmese, but sometimes as a distinct one from it.


ချင်း

→ Shan: ၶျၢင်း (khjáang)

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Chin State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


ရှမ်း

→ English: Shan

→ Thai: ฉาน (chǎan)

→ Chinese: 撣 /掸

Inherited from Old Burmese သျမ်, Old Burmese သျံ. Cognate with Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of သျှမ်း (hsyam:).

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2008, Frédéric Pain, “An Introduction to Thai Ethnonymy: Examples from Shan and Northern Thai”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 128, number 4, →ISSN, pages 641–662:

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Shan State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


ကရင်

→ English: Karen

Disputed. In official material, the government of Myanmar states it derives from ကမ်းယံ (kam:yam), the name of an ancient ethnic group. Other suggestions include a derogatory term applied to non-Buddhists or from a word meaning "aboriginal", or from Mon ကရေင်.

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Kayin State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


သျှမ်း

→ English: Shan

(obsolete) Thai people, also known as Siamese people, who are southern Tai ethnic groups.


မွန်

→ English: Mon

→ Thai: มอญ (mɔɔn)

→ Shan: မွၼ်း (máun)

From Mon မန်. Previously known as တလိုင်း (ta.luing:) in the pre-colonial era.

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Mon State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


တလိုင်း

→ English: Talaing

→ Shan: တလႅင်း (tǎ léng)

→ Thai: ตะเลง (dtà-leeng)

Uncertain. Attributed to Telugu తెలంగాణ (telaṅgāṇa). Various folk etymologies, interpreting the name as a compound meaning "one trodden under foot, slave" or "father, [we] perish", contributed to the word being regarded as derogatory.


တလိုင်း

Borrowed from Shan တႆးလူင် (tái lǔung, “Shan”).

Any ally of the Shans in the Shan Revolution of 1740, including Mons


ပသျှူး

→ Mon: ပရှူ

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး#Burmese


မလေး

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး#Burmese


ရခိုင်

→ English: Rakhine

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→ Mon: ယခေၚ်

→ Mon: ယခေၚ်

→ Shan: ယၶႅင်ႇ (yǎ khèng)

→ Shan: ရၶႅင်ႇ (rǎ khèng)

Likely derived from Pali rakkhasa or Sanskrit राक्षस (rākṣasa).

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Rakhine State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


ကယား

→ English: Kayah

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

(~ပြည်နယ်) Kayah State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)


ပအို့ဝ်

→ English: Pa'O

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ်း (pǎ ʼó)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ်း (pǎ ʼó)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ် (pǎ ʼǒ)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ် (pǎ ʼǒ)

Pa-O, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


ဓနု

→ English: Danu

→ Shan: တၼူႉ (tǎ nṵ̂u)

→ Shan: ထၼူႉ (thǎ nṵ̂u)

Danu, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


ပလောင်

→ English: Palaung

→ Shan: ပလွင်ႈ (pǎ lāung)

Palaung, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


လီဆူ

→ English: Lisu

→ Shan: မူးသိူဝ်း (múu sóe)

→ Shan: မူးသိူဝ်း (múu sóe)

Lisu, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


အာခါ

→ English: Akha

→ Shan: ဢီႇၵေႃႈ (ʼìi kāu)

→ Shan: ဢီႇၵေႃႈ (ʼìi kāu)

→ Shan: ဢႃးၶႃး (ʼáa kháa)

Akha, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


ပန်းသေး

→ English: Panthay

→ Shan: ပၢၼ်းသေး (páan sée)

Uncertain. Perhaps related to ပသီ (pa.si).

Panthay, an ethnic group of Chinese Muslims in Myanmar (Burma)


အင်းသား

→ English: Intha

အင်း (ang:, “lake”) + -သား (-sa:, “son”)

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Intha, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


ကသည်း

→ Shan: ၵသေး (kǎ sée)

Khasi, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


မရမာ

→ English: Marma

From Marma မရမာ, itself ultimately from Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma).


မရမာကြီး

/məɹəmàd͡ʑí/

မရမာ (ma.ra.ma) + ကြီး (kri:). Cognate with Burmese မြန်မာကြီး (mranma-kri:).


တောင်သူ

→ English: Taungthu

→ Shan: တွင်ႇသူႇ (tàung sùu)

→ Lao: ຕອງສູ້ (tǭng sū)


ရာမည

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→ Khmer: រាមញ្ញ (riəmaññĕəʼ)

→ Khmer: រាមញ្ញ (riəmaññĕəʼ)

→ Lao: ລາມັນ (lā man)


ကရင်နီ

→ English: Karenni

ကရင် (ka.rang, “Karen”) + နီ (ni, “red”)

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ကယား ကယား#Burmese

(historical) Obsolete form of ကယား (ka.ya:).


မြန်မာကြီး

မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanma”) + ကြီး (kri:, “great”). Cognate with Burmese မရမာကြီး (ma.ra.ma-kri:).

compound

(historical) Rakhine or Marma (an ethnic group in Myanmar and Bangladesh)


ပအိုဝ်း

→ English: Pa-O

→ English: Pa'O

desc

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ်း (pǎ ʼó)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ်း (pǎ ʼó)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ် (pǎ ʼǒ)

→ Shan: ပဢူဝ် (pǎ ʼǒ)


လားဟူ

Lahu (a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group)