မြင်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-m-raŋ ~ s-raŋ.

(chess) knight (both in Western chess and in Burmese chess, also known as sittuyin)


က

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ga³ ~ ʔga² (“to sing, dance, play”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ga (“to dance, leap, stride”); cognate with Old Chinese 歌 (OC *kaːl, “to sing”) and Tibetan གར (gar, “to dance”) (STEDT).


က

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က

in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)


နယ်

Borrowed from Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “leader, guide”).

bor+

(chess) pawn: the most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.


ဇာတ်

my-noun

ဇာတ် • (jat)

→ Shan: ၸၢတ်ႈ (tsāat)

From Pali jātaka, from Sanskrit जातक (jātaka).

zat: a kind of Burmese dramatic performance including music and dance


ထီ

Possibly corrupted from English lottery.


ဆင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *tsaŋ (“elephant”), apparently borrowed from Proto-Tai *ɟaːŋꟲ, ultimately from Middle Chinese 象 (MC zjangX).

(chess) a piece, which moves like a bishop, used in Burmese chess (sittuyin)


ဖူး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔ-bu ~ *pu (“to be born; birth; bud; bloom”). Cognate with Jingpho pu (“to bloom, bud”), Old Chinese 阜 (OC *buʔ, “big mount; abundant”) (STEDT), as well as, per Luce, 苞 (OC *pruː, “bud; luxuriant”).


ခြင်းလုံး

→ English: chinlone

/t͡ɕʰɪ́ɴlóʊɴ/

ခြင်း (hkrang:, “basket”) + အလုံး (a.lum:, “ball”)

compound

my:ခြင်းလုံး


အငြိမ့်

အ- (a.-, “nominalizer”) + ငြိမ့် (ngrim., “to feel springy”)

af

anyeint, a form of Burmese entertainment involving singing, dancing, and comedy


ထောင့်

→ Shan: ထွင်ႉ (thâ̰ung)


ရထား

→ Mon: ယထာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot, cart”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hroth₂ós, from *Hret- (“to roll”).


စစ်တုရင်

Borrowed from Pali caturaṅga, from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga, “having four members; chess”). The pronunciation of the word has been influenced by ဘုရင် (bhu.rang, “king”).


ဘုန်းကြီး

my-noun

ဘုန်းကြီး • (bhun:kri:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

kri: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

→ English: phongyi

Karmadhāraya compound of ဘုန်း (bhun:, “glory”) + ကြီး (kri:, “great”)

af

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English, equivalent to the modern bishop.


ကွင်း

(chess, card games) queen (playing card; chess piece)


ဘူ

(card games) hand in baccarat with a value of zero


ရုဘစ်ကုဗတုံး

/ɹṵbɪʔkṵbətóʊɴ/

English Rubik's + English cube + တုံး (tum:)


မင်းကြီး

Karmadhāraya compound of မင်း (mang:, “king”) + ကြီး (kri:, “great”)


ဂေါ်လီ

my-noun

ဂေါ်လီ • (gauli)


ဖန်တူလုံး

/pʰàɴtùlóʊɴ/

ဖန် (hpan, “glass”) + တူ (tu, “same”) + လုံး (lum:, “ball”)

af

(regional, Myingyan) marble (toy) made of glass


ကျောက်တူလုံး

my-noun

ကျောက်တူလုံး • (kyauktulum:)

/t͡ɕaʊʔtùlóʊɴ/

ကျောက် (kyauk, “stone”) + တူ (tu, “same”) + လုံး (lum:, “ball”)

af

(regional, Myingyan) marble (toy) made of stone


ကျားထိုးခြင်း

/t͡ɕátʰód͡ʑɪ́ɴ/

ကျား (kya:) + ထိုး (htui:) + ခြင်း (hkrang:)

com

my:ကျားထိုးခြင်း


ပိမ့်

my-noun

ပိမ့် • (pim.)


ခွေ

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *koj (“bend; curved; lap; bosom”); compare perhaps Old Chinese 跪 (OC *kʰrolʔ, *ɡrolʔ, “to kneel”) (STEDT).


မြန်မာလိုကြီး

Literally meaning "in the Burmese manner, in a Burmese way", the phrase comes from the popular, stereotypical perception that most Burmese online gamers apparently lack sophisticated gaming skills or critical thinking in their playstyles.

(online gaming slang) in a direct, normal or bland way; blindly