အဘိဓာန်

my-noun

အဘိဓာန် • (a.bhi.dhan) (classifier အုပ်)

a.bhi.dhan (romanization)
အုပ် (classifier)

Learned borrowing from Pali abhidhāna, from Sanskrit अभिधान (abhidhāna, “dictionary”). Cognate with Shan ဢၽီႉထၢၼ်ႇ (ʼǎ phḭ̂i thàan).

cog

Shan ဢၽီႉထၢၼ်ႇ (ʼǎ phḭ̂i thàan)


မြင်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-m-raŋ ~ s-raŋ (“horse”).

inh

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


ခွေး

Inherited from Old Burmese ခုယ်း (khuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n (“dog”). Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, “idem”), Old Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ, “idem”) (STEDT).

canids: ခွေးမျိုးရင်း: ခွေး · ခွေးအ · မြေခွေး · ဝံပုလွေ · ဝံပုလွေငယ် [edit]


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)


ဘုရား

my-noun

ဘုရား • (bhu.ra:) (classifier ဆူ or ပါး)

bhu.ra: (romanization)
ဆူ (classifier)
ပါး (classifier)

→ Pa'o Karen: ဖရာꩻ

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖုရာ (phurā), borrowed from Sanskrit वर पूजार्ह (vara pūjārha, “venerable enclosure”), though Sanskrit वर (vara) or Pali vara may be more likely. Likely cognate with Shan ၽြႃး (phráa) and Mon ပြဲ.

der

(Buddhism) pagoda, stupa, Buddhist temple

(honorific) royal and religious personages (e.g., the Buddha, kings, and monks)


ကျောင်း

→ Shan: ၵျွင်း (kjáung) / ၵျေႃင်း (kjáung)

→ Jingpho: jawng

→ S'gaw Karen: ကၠိ (kyoh)

→ Eastern Pwo: ကျံင်ႋ (kjōɴ)

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လောင်း (klong), itself from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lɨ̆ŋ (“convent”).


ကျောင်း

Despite MED, which groups this sense with the "school" sense, STEDT derives the word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-klawŋ (“to guard, tend cattle, graze, be at leisure”), whence also Tibetan བསྐྱངས (bskyangs, “to guard, keep, tend (cattle)”), སྐྱོང (skyong, “idem”), Old Chinese 養 (OC *laŋʔ, *laŋs, “to nourish, raise, develop”) (STEDT).


ဘူတာရုံ

ဘူတာ (bhuta, “train station”) (of uncertain origin) + ရုံ (rum, “building”)


ပြတိုက်

ပြ (pra., “to show, display”) + တိုက် (tuik, “building”).


စာကြည့်တိုက်

/sàt͡ɕḭdaɪʔ/

စာကြည့် (ca-krany., “read silently”) + တိုက် (tuik, “brick building”).


ဆေးရုံ

→ Shan: သေးယူင်ႇ (sée yùung)

ဆေး (hce:, “medicine”) + ရုံ (rum, “building”).


ရုပ်ရှင်ရုံ

/joʊʔʃɪ̀ɴjòʊɴ/

ရုပ်ရှင် (ruphrang, “movie”) + ရုံ (rum, “building”).


ရုံ

Perhaps borrowed from Malay ruang (“tranquil part of a house; room”), and cognate with Mon ရိုၚ်, Thai โรง (roong), Khmer រោង (roong).

bor+

generic term for shelter, shed, building


ရုံ

Borrowed from Pali ārāma (“pleasure, park, monastery”). Contraction of အာရာမ (arama.).

မဟာဂန္ဓာရုံကျောင်းတိုက်

(Buddhism) used in the names of Buddhist monasteries


ဗုဒ္ဓ

Borrowed from Pali buddha or Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).


ဓမ္မ

From Pali dhamma, from Sanskrit धर्म (dharma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos.


ချေး

Inherited from Old Burmese ခ္လိယ်း (hkliy), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kləy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kləj. Cognate with Tibetan ལྕི་བ (lci ba) and Chinese 屎. Compare ၶီႈ (khīi), ขี้ (kîi).


တူ

Borrowed from Pali tulā (“scales”). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).


နွား

my-noun

နွား • (nwa:) (classifier ကောင် or ရှဉ်း)

nwa: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)
ရှဉ်း (classifier)

Inherited from Old Burmese နေား (no:), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwa (“cattle”).

cleat supporting the wall plate of a frame house


ဝက်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”) (STEDT)


မြွေ

Inherited from Old Burmese မြုယ် (mruy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྲུལ (sbrul) and Mandarin 虺 (huǐ).


ပါး

→ Shan: ပႃး (páa)

(Buddhism, nobility, honorific) numeral classifier for sacred objects or persons


ကြိုး

မဟာဂီတ မဟာဂီတ#Burmese

(music) kyo, a genre of Burmese classical music; see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)


ဇာတ်

ဇာတ် • (jat)

→ Shan: ၸၢတ်ႈ (tsāat)

From Pali jātaka, from Sanskrit जातक (jātaka).

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


ဇာတ်

ဇာတ် • (jat)

→ Shan: ၸၢတ်ႈ (tsāat)


နဂါး

na.ga: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၼၵႃး (nǎ káa)

Borrowed from Pali nāga, from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá).


ဆေး

hce: (romanization)
မည် (classifier)
လုံး (classifier)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsəj (“medicine; juice; paint”). Compare Nuosu ꋌ (cy) (as in ꁬꋌ (bbut cy)), Lolopo naxcir (“medicine”), Naxi cher'ee (“medicine”), Tibetan རྩི (rtsi), Old Chinese 漆 (OC *sʰiɡ, “lacquer, paint”).


သုတ်

my-noun

သုတ် • (sut)

→ Shan: သုၵ်ႈ (sūk)

From Pali sutta. Doublet of သုတ္တ (sutta.).

(Buddhism) complete series of the Buddha's discourses constituting the Sutta Pitaka

(Buddhism) discourse delivered by the Buddha


ဆို

inh

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-tsyat (“to say, speak”)


ကန်

→ Shan: ၵၼ်ႇ (kàn)

(astrology) Virgo (the sixth sign of the Zodiac)


အို

Of uncertain origin. Has been taken as inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ga (“old”), whence Old Chinese 故 (OC *kaːs, “old things; former; dead”) and Tibetan རྒ (rga, “to be old; aged”) ; however, the phonetics are dubious, and STEDT does not link the Burmese to the Sino-Tibetan root (ui "old (of persons)"). Luce gives Old Chinese 嫗 (OC *qos, “old woman; to warm-nurse”) as a cognate, though the Chinese is thought to be related to ဥ (u., “egg”) instead.

och-l

old (of a living being: having lived for relatively many years), aged, infirm


အို

word expressing surprise, pity, disapprobation, etc.: oh


တံတား

cog

tsam⁵⁵ thɔ̃⁵⁵

tsam³¹ thɔ̃³¹

der

Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-dzam (“bridge, ladder”)

och-l

堤 (OC *teː, *teːʔ, *dje, “dike, embankment”)


ကျား

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လာ (kla), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-la (“tiger”), ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *klaʔ (“idem”).

ကျားလိုက်တုတ်ခုတ်

being forced to respond to a situation without due preparation

ကျားမြီးဆွဲမိ

to be in a fix, be committed without a chance of retraction


ကျား

Likely a semantic extension of the "variegated" sense of Etymology 2, considering the checkered pattern of the draughts game board (though MED separates the "draughts" and "variegated" senses); for a semantic parallel, note the extension of English checker from the board game to its characteristic alternating square pattern.


ကျား

ကျားမော့

a strut placed diagonally between the ridge-pole and horizontal member joining the tie-beams

a transverse stay in the roof of a building

a prop or stay applied to the side of a house, boat or ship; a buttress


ကျား

Contraction of ယောက်ျား (“a male person”); see there for more discussion.

ယောက်ျား ယောက်ျား#Burmese

abbreviation of ယောက်ျား (“a male person; a gent”)


ဆွမ်း

Shan: သွမ်း (sáum)

餞 (OC *zlenʔ, *zlens, “to give a farewell party; to preserve fruits in honey or syrup”)

(Buddhism) food offered to the Buddha or to monks


အုတ်

Borrowed from Pali iṭṭhakā, from Sanskrit इष्टका (iṣṭakā).

brick (hardened block used for building)


ကြမ်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gram (“rough”). Cognate with Jingpho gren (“raw-boned, razor-backed”) (STEDT).


ထီး

→ Shan: ထီး (thíi)

och-l

提 (OC *deː, *dje, “to raise, put forward”)

miniature paper umbrella used as offertory


ဆူ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tsu (“spirit of dead”); cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (tsù, “spirit”) (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 座 (OC *zoːls, “classifier for buildings”).

och-l

ဘုရား နှစ်ဆူ

(Buddhism) numerical classifier for pagodas, images of the Buddha, and other sacred objects


ကြက်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-rak (“chicken, fowl”), which appears to be onomatopoeic (compare English cluck). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (ya, “idem”).

inh

cɛʔhmɑ ə`yo luhmɑ ə`myo
conventional orthography:
ကြက်မှာ အရိုး လူမှာ အမျိုး။
krakhma a.rui: luhma a.myui:||

1962, Hla Pe, Burmese Proverbs, London: John Murray, pp. 18 and 90

With fowls, the pedigree; with men, breeding.


သာမဏေ

Borrowed from Pali sāmaṇera, from Sanskrit श्रामणेर (śrāmaṇera).


ဒွာရ

Borrowed from Pali dvāra, from Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.


အခန်း

desc

→ Mon: အခါန်

→ Mon: အခါန်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “room”).

af

segment of a monk's robe which is patched together from several pieces as prescribed


ကြွက်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *k-r-wakᴴ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rwak (“rat”). Cognate with Chepang रोक्युः (rok.yuʔ) and Nuosu ꉌ (hxie).


ဒုံမင်း

Borrowed from Sanskrit धमनि (dhamáni, “pipe, tube”).

(obsolete, music) A kind of wind instrument.

(music) A zither-like stringed instrument.


နန်းမြင့်

From နန်း (nan:, “palace”) + မြင့် (mrang., “high”).

A palace building where the king's chief residence is and the lion throne is located.


ဟိုတယ်

Borrowed from English hotel, from French hôtel.


စာအုပ်ဆိုင်

my-noun

စာအုပ်ဆိုင် • (cauphcuing)

/sàʔoʊʔsʰàɪɴ/

စာအုပ် (caup, “book”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “shop”).


အိမ်

im (romanization)
လုံး (classifier)
ဆောင် (classifier)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house; pit; womb”). Cognate with Tibetan ཁྱིམ (khyim, “house”) and Chinese 宮 /宫 (gōng, “dwelling, palace”).


သိုက်

my-noun

သိုက် • (suik)

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(t)s(i/u)p (“nest, womb, scrotum”), one of a few Burmese lemmas with an -uik final that is thought to be inherited and not borrowed. Cognate with Jingpho tsip (“nest”) (STEDT).


ခြင်းလုံး

→ English: chinlone

/t͡ɕʰɪ́ɴlóʊɴ/

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

compound

my:ခြင်းလုံး


ဆရာတော်

my-noun

ဆရာတော် • (hca.ratau) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

hca.ratau (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

→ Shan: သြႃႇတေႃႇ (sràa tàu)

ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher”) + -တော် (-tau, “honorific”)

suffix

(Buddhism) abbot (of a Buddhist monastery)

(Buddhism, honorific) respectful form of address used for Buddhist monks


အငြိမ့်

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

af

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


သနပ်ခါး

→ English: thanakha

→ French: thanakha

→ Thai: ทานาคา (taa-naa-kaa)

→ Jingpho: sănap hka

→ Shan: ႀၼၢပ်ႈၶႃး (xǎ nāap kháa)

→ Shan: သၼၢပ်ႈၶႃး (sǎ nāap kháa)

com+

compound of သနပ် (sa.nap, “salad, clammy cherry tree”) + ခါး (hka:, “bitter”)

Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima#Translingual

thanakha, a kind of cosmetic in the form of a fragrant paste made from the bark and root of the wood apple tree


ကင်မရာ

kangma.ra (romanization)
လုံး (classifier)


အမိုး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မိုး (mui:, “sky, roof”).


နတ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (“sick; evil spirit”); cognate with Jingpho nat (“spirit, ancestral spirit”). Doublet of နာ (na, “hurt; sick”) (STEDT).
Alternatively, MED considers the word as borrowed from Pali nātha (“protector”).

cog

(mythology) nat (spirits heavily venerated in Burmese folk religion, either celestial or spectral).


နိဗ္ဗာန်

my-noun

နိဗ္ဗာန် • (nibban)

Borrowed from Pali nibbāna, from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa).


အိပ်ခန်း

အိပ်ခန်း • (iphkan:)

အိပ် (ip, “sleep”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “room”)


အိမ်သာ

my-noun

အိမ်သာ • (imsa)

အိမ် (im, “house”) + သာ (sa, “pleasant”).

affix

အိမ်သာ ဘယ်မှာလဲ။ ― imsa bhaihmalai:|| ― Where is the toilet?

toilet (lavatory, w.c. (the room); bathroom with toilet), latrine, lavatory, water closet


ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း

/pʰóʊɴd͡ʑít͡ɕáʊɴ/

ဘုန်းကြီး (bhun:kri:, “monk”) + ကျောင်း (kyaung:, “school”)

af

(Buddhism) monastery (place of residence for members of a religious community)


စာသင်ခန်း

စာသင် (casang, “to study, learn”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “room”).


တိုက်

my-noun

တိုက် • (tuik)

desc

→ Shan: တိူၵ်ႈ (tōek, “brick building; continent”)

Unknown. Shared lexeme across several languages in mainland Southeast Asia, including Shan တိုၵ်း (túek), Mon တိုက်, Thai ตึก (dtʉ̀k), and Lao ຕຶກ (tưk).

continents: တိုက်editအန္တာတိကအမေရိကတောင်အမေရိကမြောက်အမေရိကအာဖရိကအာရှအိုရှန်းနီးယားဥရောပ

building or place where some specialized activity is carried out, such as business concern, depository, works, store, etc.


စာတိုက်

my-noun

စာတိုက် • (catuik)

စာ (ca, “letter”) + တိုက် (tuik, “brick building”)

affix

post office (place concerned with the business of delivering letters, etc.)


ဘဏ်တိုက်

ဘဏ် (bhan, “bank (institution)”) + တိုက် (tuik, “brick building”).

bank (branch office of a financial institution)


သံရုံး

သံ (sam, “diplomat”) + ရုံး (rum:, “office”)


သီချင်း

sihkyang: (romanization)
ပုဒ် (classifier)

သီ (si, “to sing, chant”) + အချင်း (a.hkyang:, “song, poem”).


ဆိတ်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *V-ci:tᴸ (“goat, sheep”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-tsit (“goat, beard, goatee, yak-hair”). Cognate with Lashi choyt, Nuosu ꍶ (chyt, “goat”), Japhug tsʰɤt (“goat”), Naxi ceel (“goat”), Drung vchit (“goat”) (STEDT).


ယုန်

yun (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)
တုတ် (classifier)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-jəw-n ~ bwəj; cognate with Tibetan ཡོས (yos).


ပတ်

Borrowed from Pali paṭaha, from Sanskrit पटह (paṭaha, “kettledrum, war drum”).


ဝါး

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *wa² (“bamboo”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g/s-pʷa (“bamboo”). Cognate with Lhao Vo vo: and Old Chinese 笆 (OC *praː, *braːʔ, “thorny bamboo; bamboo basketry; bamboo fence”) (STEDT).
The "clappers" and "music timing" senses are grouped with the "bamboo" sense by MED, perhaps because ancient Burmese clappers were made of bamboo, and used to keep time in music.


ကားဂိတ်

my-noun

ကားဂိတ် • (ka:git)

ကား (ka:, “car”) + ဂိတ် (git, “stop, terminus”). The first element is borrowed from English car; the second from gate in a sense that developed within Burmese. Cognate with English car gate.


အကျဉ်းထောင်

/ʔət͡ɕɪ́ɴdàʊɴ/


ဘိုင်စကုတ်

/bàɪɴsəkoʊʔ/


စာပေ

စာ (ca, “letter; writing”) + ပေ (pe, “corypha palm; palm-leaf for writing”).


မိကျောင်း

my-noun

မိကျောင်း • (mi.kyaung:) (classifier ကောင်)

mi.kyaung: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

From Sanskrit मकर (makara) according to Myanmar-English Dictionary (1993). Compare Mon ကျာံ.

my:မိကျောင်း
my:မိကျောင်း (တူရိယာ)

မိကျောင်းပန်း

Aganope heptaphylla (syn. Derris sinuata Benth. ex Thwaites)

mi gyaung, a crocodile-shaped musical instrument with three strings


မေတ္တာ

မေတ္တာ • (metta)

Borrowed from Pali mettā, ultimately from Sanskrit मैत्री (maitrī). Doublet of မိတ် (mit).

(Buddhism) metta, one of the Ten Perfections


ခရစ္စမတ်

/kʰəɹɪʔsəmaʔ/


အစ္စလမ်

အစ္စလမ်ဘာသာ


ယေရှု

Borrowed from English Jesus, from Biblical Hebrew יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ).


ခရစ်ယာန်

ခရစ်ယန်ဘာသာ ― hka.racyanbhasa ― Christianity


ခရစ်တော်

From English Christ + -တော် (-tau, honorific)


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”).


ရဟန်း

my-noun

ရဟန်း • (ra.han:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

ra.han: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

→ Shan: ရႁၢၼ်း (rǎ háan)


ပဉ္စင်း

ပဉ္စင်း • (panycang:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

panycang: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

→ Mon: ပျၚ်

Perhaps from Pali pañcaṅga (“consisting of five things”), in the sense that a fully ordained monk:
* Is one who has abandoned the five factors (Pali pañcaṅgavippahīna) of: lust, ill will, stiffness and torpor, agitation and worry, and uncertainty, and
* Is one who is complete in the five factors (Pali pañcaṅgasamannāgata) of: the aggregate of virtue, concentration, wisdom, liberation, and knowledge/vision of one beyond training.


သော

(literary) particle suffixed to a word to form an adjective

sentence final marker, emphasising a wish expressed


ကံ

Borrowed from Pali kamma. Doublet of ဧကံ (ekam).

(Buddhism) karma (the sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth)


ပတ္ထနာ

Borrowed from Pali patthanā (“wish, desire; request; aspiration; prayer”); compare Sanskrit प्रार्थना (prārthanā).


အလ္လာဟ်

head

အလ္လာဟ် • (allah)

my-proper noun

အလ္လာဟ် • (allah)


ဗေဒ

Borrowed from Pali veda (“Veda; feeling; enthusiasm; emotion; knowledge”).


စန္ဒရား

→ Shan: ၸၼ်းတယႃး (tsán tǎ yáa)

Blend of စန်း (can:, “desirable”) + ယန္တရား (yanta.ra:, “instrument”), the latter from Sanskrit यन्त्र (yantra, “instrument; apparatus; machine; appliance”).


ဝိညာဉ်

→ Shan: ဝီႉၺဵၼ်ႇ (wḭ̂i nyàen)

Borrowed from Pali viññāṇa, cognate with Sanskrit विज्ञान (vijñāna).

(Buddhism) consciousness;one of the five khandhas.


ပညာ

Borrowed from Pali paññā (“intelligence; reason; wisdom; knowledge”), from Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā).

bor+

(Buddhism) prajna, one of the Ten Perfections


တိုက်အိမ်

my-noun

တိုက်အိမ် • (tuik-im)

တိုက် (tuik, “brick building”) + အိမ် (im, “house”)


ဘွဲ့

→ Shan: ၽွႆႉ (phâ̰ui)

Benedict, as listed by STEDT, tentatively considers the word to be borrowed from Mon (bhwaiʼ "honorary title ( < Mon ? ) ( cf. brâi )"). Other theories take the word as a voiced derivative of Burmese ဖွဲ့ (hpwai., “to tie or twist into a string; to form a union, compose a song”).

cog

(Buddhism) Dharma name for Buddhist monks upon attaining monkhood


တူရိယာ

Borrowed from Pali turiya, tūriya (“musical instruments in general”); compare Sanskrit तूर्य (tūrya, “a kind of musical instrument”).


ငရဲ

desc

→ Shan: ငရၢႆး (ngǎ ráai), ငလၢႆး (ngǎ láai)


ကောင်းကင်ဘုံ

my-noun

ကောင်းကင်ဘုံ

/káʊɴɡɪ̀ɴbòʊɴ/


စားဖိုဆောင်

From စားဖို (ca:hpui, “fireplace, kitchen”) + ဆောင် (hcaung, “room”).


ဟိန္ဒူ

my-adj

ဟိန္ဒူ • (hindu)

ဟိန္ဒူဘာသာ ― hindubhasa ― Hinduism


ဗလီ

Borrowed from Tamil பள்ளி (paḷḷi, “school”).


ကနုတ်

Borrowed from Thai กระหนก (grà-nòk) or Pali kokanada (“red lotus”).

A design in traditional art depicting convoluted lotus stems, buds, blossoms, etc.


ဗိမာန်

desc

→ Shan: ပိၵ်ႈမၢၼ်ႇ (pīk màan)

→ Shan: ပိၵ်ႈမၢၼ်ႇ (pīk màan)

From Sanskrit विमान (vimāna, “palace, abode”).


သိမ်

my-noun

သိမ် • (sim)

→ Shan: သိမ်ႇ (sìm)

Borrowed from Pali sīmā (“boundary”). Cognate with Mon သီ and Lao ສິມ (sim).


ယိုးဒယား

→ Thai: โยดะยา (yoo-dà-yaa)

Borrowed from Thai อยุธยา (à-yút-tá-yaa, “Ayutthaya”).

bor+

မဟာဂီတ မဟာဂီတ#Burmese

(music) Yodaya, a genre of Burmese classical music; see မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)


မှန်စီရွှေချ

/m̥àɴzìʃwèt͡ɕʰa̰/

မှန် (hman, “glass”) + စီ (ci, “arrange”) + ရွှေ (hrwe, “gold”) + ချ (hkya., “gild”)


ကြေးစည်

ကြေး (kre:, “brass”) + စည် (cany, “gong”)


စေတီ

Borrowed from Pali cetiya (“memorial, pagoda”).


ပုထိုး

desc

→ Shan: ပူႉထူဝ်း (pṵ̂u thó)

→ Shan: ပူႉထူဝ်း (pṵ̂u thó)


အာရာမ်

my-noun

အာရာမ် • (aram)

Borrowed from Pali ārāma. Doublet of အာရာမ (arama.).

(Buddhism) enclosure defining the compound of a Burmese pagoda or monastery


မုခ်

→ Shan: မုၵ်ႈ (mūk)

(Buddhism, architecture) gateway to a Burmese pagoda


ဩကာသ

(Buddhism) submission for grant of exculpation prefacing a prayer.


ဗိသုကာ

desc

→ Mon: ပိက်ထကာ

→ Mon: ပိက်ထကာ


ဇာတ်ဆောင်

ဇာတ် (jat) + ဆောင် (hcaung), with the first element borrowed from Pali jātaka.


ပန်းချီဆရာ

/bəd͡ʑìsʰəjà/

ပန်းချီ (pan:hkyi, “painting”) + ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher”).


ကောင်းကင်တမန်

/káʊɴɡɪ̀ɴtəmàɴ/

ကောင်းကင် (kaung:kang, “heaven”) + တမန် (ta.man, “messenger”)


ကိန်း

my-verb

ကိန်း • (kin:)

Borrowed from Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).

(Buddhism) to enshrine (of a holy object)

(Buddhism, honorific) to live; to dwell (of a holy person)


အဂတိ

Borrowed from Pali agati (“wrongdoing”). Cognate with Shan ဢၵတီႉ (ʼǎ kǎ tḭ̂i).

cog

Shan ဢၵတီႉ (ʼǎ kǎ tḭ̂i)

(Buddhism) one of four kinds of misconduct, i.e., chanda, dosa, moha, bhaya.


သာဝက

desc

→ Shan: သႃႇဝၵႃႉ (sàa wǎ kâ̰a)

→ Shan: သႃႇဝၵႃႉ (sàa wǎ kâ̰a)


သစ္စာ

(Buddhism) truth; veracity, one of the Ten Perfections


ပြာသာဒ်

my-noun

ပြာသာဒ် • (prasad)

desc

→ Shan: ပျၢတ်ႈသၢတ်ႈ (pjāat sāat)

→ Shan: ပျၢတ်ႈသၢတ်ႈ (pjāat sāat)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रासाद (prāsāda, “palace”). Cognate with Khmer ប្រាសាទ (praasaat), Lao ຜາສາດ (phā sāt), Thai ปราสาท (bpraa-sàat), Mon ပြါသာတ်.


ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ

desc

→ Mon: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ

→ Mon: ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ

ပုၵ်ႉထႃႉၽႃႇသႃႇ

→ Shan: ပုၵ်ႉထႃႉၽႃႇသႃႇ (pṵ̂k thâ̰a phàa sàa)

ဗုဒ္ဓ (buddha., “Buddha”) + ဘာသာ (bhasa, “language, religion”).

af

(Buddhism) the religion or philosophy derived from the teachings of Gautama Buddha; Buddhism


ဥုံ

Borrowed from Sanskrit ओं (oṃ) or Sanskrit औं (auṃ) or ॐ (auṃ).

(Hinduism, Buddhism) A sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation.


သီလ

(Buddhism) morality, one of the Ten Perfections


နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း

my-noun

နိုင်ငံတော်သီချင်း

/nàɪɴŋàɴdɔ̀θət͡ɕʰɪ́ɴ/


အမျိုးသားသီချင်း

အမျိုးသားသီချင်း

အမျိုးသားသီချင်း • (a.myui:sa:sihkyang:)

/ʔəmjóðáθət͡ɕʰɪ́ɴ/

From အမျိုးသား (a.myui:sa:) + သီချင်း (sihkyang:).


မင်းသား

→ Shan: မင်းသႃး (máng sáa)

→ Jingpho: mang sa

မင်း (mang:, “lord”) + -သား (-sa:, “son”)

actor, leading male performer of stage or screen


ဂိုဏ်း

my-noun

ဂိုဏ်း • (guin:)

→ Shan: ၵိူင်း (kóeng)


ပုဏ္ဏား

ပုဏ္ဏား • (punna:)

From Pali brāhmaṇa, Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brāhmaṇa).


ကိုရမ်ကျမ်း

/kòɹàɴt͡ɕáɴ/

From Arabic القُرْآنُ (al-qurʔānu) + ကျမ်း (kyam:, “treatise; text for swearing in”).

my:ကိုရမ်ကျမ်း


ဘီလူး

bhilu: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၽီလူး (phǐi lúu)

Perhaps borrowed from Sanskrit भैरव (bhairava).

(mythology) ogre (brutish giant that eats human flesh)


စန်း

(astrology) the moon (represented by the numeral two "ဋ္ဌ" on a horoscope)


စောင်း

→ Mon: စံၚ်

Borrowed from Classical Persian چنگ (čang, “lyre, harp”).
Note also similarities to Old Chinese 箏 (OC *ʔsreːŋ, “zither”).


ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ်

/kʊ̀ɴpʰjúʃaʔ/

my:ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ်


မုဒြာ

(Buddhism) mudra, a gesture in Buddhist iconography


နန္ဒာ

ထေရီ ထေရီ#Burmese

(Buddhism) (~ထေရီ) Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha and one of the first ordained Buddhist nuns


အာရာမ

Borrowed from Pali ārāma. Doublet of အာရာမ် (aram).


ဟင်္သာ

hangsa (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ႁင်းသႃႇ (háng sàa)


တံခွန်တိုင်

/dəɡʊ̀ɴdàɪɴ/

တံခွန် (tamhkwan, “pennant”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

com

(Buddhism) ornamented victory column, typically erected in Buddhist compounds


ပဉ္စရူပ

my-noun

ပဉ္စရူပ • (panyca.rupa.) (classifier ကောင်)

panyca.rupa. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) + ရူပ (rupa., “beauties”), borrowed from Pali pañca (“five”) + Pali rūpa (“beauties”).

com

တိုးနရား တိုးနရား#Burmese

ဟင်္သာ ဟင်္သာ#Burmese

(mythology) chimeric animal with component parts of an elephant, bullock, horse, carp and tonaya (တိုးနရား (tui:na.ra:)), or alternately lion, elephant, buffalo, carp and brahminy duck (ဟင်္သာ (hangsa)).


ပတ္တလား

desc

→ Shan: ပတ်ႈတလႃး (pāt tǎ láa)

→ Shan: ပတ်ႈတလႃး (pāt tǎ láa)

From Sanskrit वाद्य (vādya, “instrumental music; speech”) + a component of indeterminate meaning and origin တလား (ta.la:).

com

(music) Burmese teak and bamboo xylophone


နဝရူပ

my-noun

နဝရူပ • (na.wa.rupa.) (classifier ကောင်)

na.wa.rupa. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

နဝ (na.wa., “nine”) + ရူပ (rupa., “form”). Borrowed from Pali nava (“nine”) + Pali rūpa (“form”).

com

(mythology) chimeric animal found in Burmese art


ရာမ

(Hinduism) Rama (the protagonist of the Ramayana)


ရာမ

ဆေကိန္ဒာရာမကျောင်း
hcekindarama.kyaung:

အာရာမ အာရာမ#Burmese

(Buddhism) Contraction of အာရာမ (arama.). (used in the names of Buddhist monasteries, e.g., ဆေကိန္ဒာရာမကျောင်း)


ဂီတပညာ

/ɡìta̰pjɪ̀ɴɲà/

From Pali gīta (“music”) + paññā (“wisdom”).


မဟာဂီတ

မဟာ (ma.ha, “great”) + ဂီတ (gita., “songs”), borrowed from Pali mahā (“great”) + Pali gīta (“songs”).

com

Mahāgīta, the corpus of Burmese classical songs


သီတာ

Borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


သီလရှင်

my-noun

သီလရှင် • (sila.hrang) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

sila.hrang (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

သီလ (sila., “morals in Buddhism”) + -ရှင် (-hrang, “-er”).


မင်းသမီး

→ Jingpho: mang sămi


ကျိန်း

my-verb

ကျိန်း • (kyin:)

→ Shan: ၵိင်း (kíng)

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) to sleep


တပည့်တော်

တပည့် (ta.pany., “pupil, disciple”) + -တော် (-tau, “reverent suffix”).


တပည့်တော်မ

တပည့် (ta.pany.) + -တော် (-tau) + မ (ma.)


ပဒေသာပင်

/bədèðàbɪ̀ɴ/

ပဒေသာ (pa.desa, “variety”) + ပင် (pang, “tree”), the former element from Pali padesa.

com

(Buddhism) tree of plenty; cornucopia, typically offered during Kathina


ဘုဉ်းပေး

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) to eat; to consume


ပင့်

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) to invite


ကြွ

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk, royal) to come or go


တင်ပါ့ဘုရား

/tɪ̀ɴba̰pʰəjá/


မှန်ပါ့ဘုရား

/m̥àɴba̰pʰəjá/


အရှင်ဘုရား

/ʔəʃɪ̀ɴpʰəjá/

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk, royal) respectful form of address used for Buddhist monks


ဦးစင်း

my-noun

ဦးစင်း • (u:cang:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

cang: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) form of address used for Buddhist monks


ဦးစင်း

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) form of address used by Buddhist monks


ဆရာလေး

ဆရာလေး • (hca.rale:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

hca.rale: (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher”) + လေး (le:, “little”)

af

(Buddhism, honorific, of a nun) form of address used for Buddhist nuns


ဘုန်းဘုန်း

/pʰóʊɴpʰóʊɴ/

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) familiar form of address used for Buddhist monks


ဦးပဉ္စင်း

my-noun

ဦးပဉ္စင်း • (u:panycang:) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)


သာသနာ

From Pali sāsana (“teaching, instruction, rule, order”).

der

သီဟိုဠ်မှာ တီယ အမည်ရှိသော သူပုန်တယောက်သည် စစ်တပ်တစ်တပ်စုယူ၍ စေတီများမှာ ပါဝင်သော ပစ္စည်းဘဏ္ဍာကို လုယက်ယူပြီး၊ ဤသို့ ဘုရားသာသနာကို ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် လုယက်ဖျက်ဆီး ဘေးအန္တရာယ်များစွာ ပြုလုပ်လေသည်။
sihuilhma tiya. a.manyhri.sau: supunta.yauksany cactaptactapcu.yurwe ceti-mya:hma pawangsau: paccany:bhandakui lu.yak-yu-pri:| isui. bhu.ra:sasa.nakui hcan.kyangbhak lu.yakhpyakhci: bhe:anta.raymya:cwa pru.luplesany||
In Ceylon, a rebel named Tiya having collected an army, plundered the wealth contained in shrines and thus did much harm to the Buddhist Temple.


ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနာ

/boʊʔda̰θàðənà/

Pali buddha (“Buddha”) + Pali sāsana (“teaching, instruction, rule, order”)

af

(Buddhism) teachings of Buddha; Buddhist teachings.


တမန်တော်

တမန် (ta.man, “messenger”) + -တော် (-tau, “royal”)


ပန်းပု

(art) sculpture (the art of carving materials such as wood or ivory)


ပန်းချီ

ပန်း (pan:, “art”) + ချီ (hkyi, “measure word for number of performances and shows”).


ပန်းယွန်း

ပန်း (pan:, “art”) + ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”)


ယွန်း

Borrowed from Sanskrit यवन (yavana). Compare Mon ယန်, Thai ยวน (yuuan), Khmer យួន (yuən). The "lacquer" sense stems from the historical association between the Northern Thai people and lacquerware in Myanmar.


ပန်းအိ

(art) delicate tracery of floral work and arabesque in wood or ivory sculpture


ပန်းဆယ်မျိုး

/páɴsʰɛ̀mjó/

ပန်း (pan:, “art”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + မျိုး (myui:, “kinds”)

(art) ten traditional arts and crafts recognized in Burmese culture


အငြိမ့်တီးမျိုး

/ʔa̰ɲḛɪɴtímjó/

အငြိမ့် (a.ngrim.) + တီး (ti:) + မျိုး (myui:) + [Term?] (“kinds”)

(music) Burmese musical instruments that produce soothing sounds


ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး

/pàɹəmì sʰɛ̀ bá/

ပါရမီ (para.mi, “virtue”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + ပါး (pa:). Calque of Pali dasapāramī.

(Buddhism) Ten Perfections or principal virtues (paramita) recognized in Buddhist scholarship


သစ္စာလေးပါး

သစ္စာ (sacca, “truth”) + လေး (le:, “four”) + ပါး (pa:),calque of Pali cattāri ariyasaccāni.


သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး

my-noun

သင်္ဂဟတရားလေးပါး • (sangga.ha.ta.ra:le:pa:)

/θɪ̀ɴɡa̰ha̰ta̰jálépá/

သင်္ဂဟ (sangga.ha.) + တရား (ta.ra:) + လေး (le:, “four”) + ပါး (pa:)

af

(Buddhism) four rules of good social relations


ဓာတ်ကြီးလေးပါး

ဓာတ် (dhat) + ကြီး (kri:) + လေး (le:, “four”) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) four basic properties of matter in the Abhidharma


ရတနာသုံးပါး

/jədənàθóʊɴbá/

ရတနာ (ra.ta.na, “jewel”) + သုံး (sum:, “three”) + ပါး (pa:), calque of Pali tisaraṇaṃ.

(Buddhism) Three Jewels of Buddhism; Triple Gem


သရဏဂုံသုံးပါး

/θəɹənəɡòʊɴθóʊɴbá/

သရဏဂုံ (sa.ra.na.gum, “jewel”) + သုံး (sum:, “three”) + ပါး (pa:), calque of Pali tisaraṇaṃ.


လက္ခဏာရေးသုံးပါး

my-noun

လက္ခဏာရေးသုံးပါး • (lakhka.nare:sum:pa:)

/lɛʔkʰənàjéθóʊɴbá/

လက္ခဏာ (lakhka.na) + ရေး (re:) + သုံး (sum:) + ပါး (pa:), calque of Pali tilakkhaṇa.


အနန္တောအနန္တငါးပါး

my-noun

အနန္တောအနန္တငါးပါး • (a.nantau:a.nanta.nga:pa:)

/ʔənàɴdɔ́ʔənda̰ŋápá/

အနန္တော (a.nantau:) + အနန္တ (a.nanta.) + ငါး (nga:) + ပါး (pa:)


ခန္ဓာငါးပါး

/kʰàɴdàŋábá/

ခန္ဓာ (hkandha, “aggregates”) + ငါး (nga:, “five”) + ပါး (pa:). Calque of Pali pañcakkhandhā.

(Buddhism) five aggregates (skandha) embodying a being, i.e., form, sensation, cognition, mental formation, and consciousness


ကပ်ကြီးသုံးပါး

/kaʔd͡ʑíθóʊɴbá/

ကပ် (kap) + ကြီး (kri:) + သုံး (sum:) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) three catastrophes, i.e., famine, war, and epidemic disease


ကံသုံးပါး

(Buddhism) three types of action (karma), i.e., deeds, words and thoughts


မီးသုံးပါး

မီး (mi:, “fires”) + သုံး (sum:, “three”) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) three fires (also known as the three poisons), i.e., greed, anger, and ignorance


နတ်ပြည်ခြောက်ထပ်

နတ်ပြည် (natprany) + ခြောက် (hkrauk) + ထပ် (htap)

(Buddhism) the six-layered abode of celestial deities.


တိပိဋက

(Buddhism) Tipitaka, i.e., Sutta, Vinaya, and Abhidhamma


ပိဋကတ်

desc

→ Shan: ပီႉတၵၢတ်ႈ (pḭ̂i tǎ kāat)

→ Shan: ပီႉတၵၢတ်ႈ (pḭ̂i tǎ kāat)

→ Shan: ပိတ်ႈတၵၢတ်ႈ (pīt tǎ kāat)

→ Shan: ပိတ်ႈတၵၢတ်ႈ (pīt tǎ kāat)


မဂ္ဂင်ရှစ်ပါး

/mɛʔɡɪ̀ɴʃɪʔbá/

မဂ္ဂင် (maggang) + ရှစ် (hrac, “eight”) + ပါး (pa:)

af

noble eightfold path
noble eightfold path

(Buddhism) noble eightfold path, i.e., Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.


ပဉ္စင်တူရိယာ

/pjɪʔsɪ̀ɴtùɹḭjà/

(music) five classes of Burmese musical instruments, i.e., brass, string, leather-covered drum, wind, and percussion


ဆွေခုနစ်ဆက်မျိုးခုနစ်ဆက်

/sʰwèkʰənəzɛʔmjókʰənəzɛʔ/

ဆွေမျိုး (hcwe-myui:, “kin”) + ခုနစ် (hku.nac, “seven”) + ဆက် (hcak, “generations”)

(Buddhism, law) seven degrees or generations of kinship (ancestors and descendants) recognized in the traditional Burmese legal system

en-ဆွေခုနစ်ဆက်မျိုးခုနစ်ဆက်-my-noun-XWlDVMP-


ငရဲကြီးရှစ်ထပ်

/ŋəjɛ́d͡ʑíʃɪʔtʰaʔ/

ငရဲကြီး (nga.rai:kri:) + ရှစ် (hrac) + ထပ် (htap)


ဘုရားကိုးဆူ

/pʰəjákósʰù/

ဘုရား (bhu.ra:) + ကိုး (kui:) + ဆူ (hcu)

(Buddhism) nine deities represented by the Buddha and the eight Arhats

(Hinduism) nine deities represented by the nine planets


နဝရတ်

နဝ (na.wa., “nine”) + ရတနာ (ra.ta.na, “gem”). Borrowed from Sanskrit नवरत्न (navaratna).


တော်လေးဝ

တော် (tau) + လေး (le:, “four”) + ဝ (wa.)

af

(Buddhism, literary) the four paragons of womanhood, i.e., Amarā, Candakinnarī, Maddīdevī, and Sambhūla.


အရွယ်ဆယ်ပါး

/ʔəjwɛ̀sʰɛ̀bá/

အရွယ် (a.rwai, “age”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) ten decades of a person's life


အတွင်းတာရာ

/ʔətwɪ́ɴtàjà/

အတွင်း (a.twang:, “inner”) + တာရာ (tara, “stars”)

(astrology, astronomy) nine constellations within the apparent orbit of the 27 lunar mansions


ပရိက္ခရာ

/pəɹeɪʔkʰəjà/

(Buddhism) eight prescribed articles for use by Buddhist monks, i.e.,


ပစ္စည်းလေးပါး

ပစ္စည်း (paccany:, “items”) + လေး (le:, “four”) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) four categories of items monks are permitted to accept as offerings


ရန်သူမျိုးငါးပါး

/jàɴðùmjóŋábá/

ရန်သူ (ransu, “enemies”) + မျိုး (myui:, “kinds”) + ငါး (nga:, “five”) + ပါး (pa:)

(Buddhism) five enemies of mankind, i.e., water, fire, king, thief, and malevolent persons


ဝိပတ္တိတရားလေးပါး

my-noun

ဝိပတ္တိတရားလေးပါး • (wi.patti.ta.ra:le:pa:)

ဝိပတ္တိတရား (wi.patti.ta.ra:) + လေး (le:) + ပါး (pa:)


ကလျာဏမိတ္တ

(Buddhism) good friend, of whom possess seven qualities


ဗြဟ္မစိုရ်တရား

(Buddhism) four cardinal virtues; Four Immeasurables; Four Perfect Virtues, i.e., loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity


ပန်းခုနစ်မည်

ပန်း (pan:, “flowers”) + ခုနစ် (hku.nac, “seven”) + မည် (many, “types”)

(astrology) seven kinds of flowers, each having an astrological significance for one of the seven days of the week.


အနိစ္စ

From Pali anicca, can be analysed as အ (a., “negative prefix in Pali and Sanskrit words”) + နိစ္စ (nicca., “perpetuity; constancy”).


သင်္ကန်း

my-noun

သင်္ကန်း • (sangkan:) (classifier ပိုင်)

sangkan: (romanization)
ပိုင် (classifier)

→ Shan: သၢင်ႇၵၢၼ်း (sàang káan)

Pali āsaṅga (“adhering; clothing (that which hangs on the body)”) + Pali sanghāṭī (“one of the three robes of a Buddhist”). The first term is cognate with Sanskrit आसक्ति (āsakti, “adhering; diligence”), and the second term is equivalent to Sanskrit सम्- (sam-, “with, together”) + Pali ghaṭeti (“to join, connect, unite”), the latter a verbal formation from ghaṭa (“multitude, heap, crowd, thicket”), from Sanskrit घटा (ghaṭā, “collection, assemblage”), from the root घट् (ghaṭ, “to strive, reach, be in connection or united with”), thus "joined together".


ဗြိစ္ဆာ

From Sanskrit वृश्चिक (vṛścika, “scorpion”).

(astrology) Scorpio (the eighth sign of the zodiac)


တရား

→ Shan: တြႃး (tráa)

Inherited from Old Burmese တရျာ (trja:).

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tjak/ŋ ~ tik/ŋ (“good, very, real, straight”)

ရတနာသုံးပါး ရတနာသုံးပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) dhamma, part of the Triple Gem (ရတနာသုံးပါး (ra.ta.nasum:pa:)); dharma, the law, the doctrine of Buddha


သံဃာ

Borrowed from Pali saṅgha, from Sanskrit संघ (saṃgha).

ရတနာသုံးပါး ရတနာသုံးပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) Sangha; part of the Triple Gem (ရတနာသုံးပါး (ra.ta.nasum:pa:))

(Buddhism) member of the Buddhist monkhood


ဘိက္ခုနီ

my-noun

ဘိက္ခုနီ • (bhikhku.ni) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

bhikhku.ni (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)


မယ်သီလ

မယ်သီလ • (maisila.) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

maisila. (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)


ဝသုန္ဓရာ

/wəθòʊɴdəɹà/

Borrowed from Pali vasundharā or Sanskrit वसुन्धरा (vasundharā). Doublet of ဝသုန္ဓရေ (wa.sundha.re).


ဝသုန္ဓရေ

/wəθòʊɴdəɹè/

Borrowed from Pali vasundharā or Sanskrit वसुन्धरा (vasundharā). Doublet of ဝသုန္ဓရာ (wa.sundha.ra).


ကဆုန်လပြည့်နေ့

ကဆုန် (ka.hcun) + လပြည့်နေ့ (la.prany.ne.)


ဘုရားကျောင်း

/pʰəjád͡ʑáʊɴ/


ဘုံကျောင်း

/bòʊɴd͡ʑáʊɴ/

/bòʊɴt͡ɕáʊɴ/


ဘုရားရှိခိုးကျောင်း

my-noun

ဘုရားရှိခိုးကျောင်း • (bhu.ra:hri.hkui:kyaung:)

/pʰəjáʃḭkʰód͡ʑáʊɴ/

ဘုရား (bhu.ra:) + ရှိခိုး (hri.hkui:) + ကျောင်း (kyaung:)


ဘရင်ဂျီ

desc

→ Mon: ဗြေန်ဂျေဝ်

→ Mon: ဗြေန်ဂျေဝ်

/bəjɪ̀ɴd͡ʑì/

From Hindi फ़िरंगी (firaṅgī), from Classical Persian فرنگی (farangī, firingī), from Old French franc. Compare Khmer បារាំង (baarang), Thai ฝรั่ง (fà-ràng). Doublet of ဖရန့် (hpa.ran.).


နတ်နန်း

နတ် (nat, “spirit”) + နန်း (nan:, “palace”)


သီတင်း

(Buddhism) observation of the Eight Precepts; sabbath; moral conduct

(Buddhism) uposatha; sabbath day (falling on the eighth day of the waxing moon, the full moon, eighth day of the waning moon, and the new-moon day)


ဥပုသ်

(Buddhism) observance of the Eight Precepts; sabbath


သီတင်းသီလ

/ðədɪ́ɴθìla̰/

သီတင်း (sitang:, “sabbath, Uposatha”) + သီလ (sila., “morals, precepts”)


ဆိုကရေးတီး

ဆို (hcui, “sing”) + က (ka., “dance”) + ရေး (re:, “compose”) + တီး (ti:, “perform”)

(art) Abbreviation of Myanmar's National Performing Arts Competition


ရာဇဂုရု

ရာဇ (raja.) + ဂုရု (gu.ru.), borrowed from Pali rāja + Pali guru.

(Buddhism, historical) title granted to distinguished Buddhist monks during the Konbaung dynasty


ရာဇာဓိရာဇဂုရု

/jàza̰dḭjàza̰ɡṵɹṵ/

ရာဇ (raja.) + ဓိရာဇ (dhi.raja.) + ဂုရု (gu.ru.), borrowed from Pali rāja + Pali dhirāja + Pali guru.


အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ

/ʔɛʔɡa̰məhàpàɴdḭta̰/

From Pali အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ (aggamahāpaṇḍita), decomposed into အဂ္ဂ (agga.) + မဟာ (ma.ha) + ပဏ္ဍိတ (pandi.ta.), borrowed from Pali agga + Pali mahā + Pali paṇḍita.

bor

အဂ္ဂမဟာပဏ္ဍိတ

af

(Buddhism) Aggamahāpaṇḍita, a title granted to distinguished Buddhist monks by the Burmese government


ဒီပါဝလီ

Borrowed from Hindi दीपावली (dīpāvlī), from Sanskrit दीपावलि (dīpāvali).


သူရဿတီ

Borrowed from Sanskrit सरस्वती (sarasvatī).


မဟာပိန္နဲ

/məhàpèɪɴnɛ́/

Borrowed from Sanskrit महाविनायक (mahāvināyaka).


ဗြဟ္မာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (brahman).


ဣန္ဒာ

my-noun

ဣန္ဒာ • (inda)

Borrowed from Pali Inda. Doublet of ဣန္ဒါ (inda), အိန္ဒြာ (indra), and ဣန္ဒြာ (indra).


မဟာဘာရတ

Borrowed from Sanskrit महाभारतम् (mahābhāratam).


တာဝတိံသာ

/tàwa̰tèɪɴθà/

(Buddhism) Trāyastriṃśa, second of the six levels inhabited by nats or celestial lords in Buddhist cosmology


ဒဿဂီရိ

Borrowed from Sanskrit दश (daśa, “ten”) and गीरि (gīri, “head”). Compare Thai ทศกัณฐ์ (tót-sà-gan, “ten-necked, Ravana”).


မယ်သီတာ

မယ် (mai) + သီတာ (sita), with the second element borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


ဟနူမာန်

Borrowed from Sanskrit हनुमान् (hanumān).


သီတာဒေဝီ

သီတာ (sita) + ဒေဝီ (dewi), with the second element borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


လက္ခဏ

Borrowed from Pali Lakkhaṇa, ultimately from Sanskrit लक्ष्मण (lakṣmaṇa). Doublet of လက္ခဏာ (lakhka.na).


ဘိဘိသန

Borrowed from Sanskrit विभीषण (vibhīṣaṇa).


ပသျှူးရာမ

Borrowed from Sanskrit परशुराम (paraśurāma).


ဒေဝ

Borrowed from Pali deva or Sanskrit देव (deva).


ပညာကျော်

/pjɪ̀ɴɲàd͡ʑɔ̀/

(Buddhism, historical) title conferred conferred by the Burmese government to Buddhist civilians from the 1950s to 1970s.


ပညာဗလ

/pjɪ̀ɴɲàbəla̰/

ပညာ (pa.nya) + ဗလ (ba.la.), borrowed from Pali paññā + Pali bala.

(Buddhism, historical) title conferred by the Burmese government to Buddhist civilians from the 1950s to 1970s.


မဟာပညာဗလ

/məhàpjɪ̀ɴɲàbəla̰/

မဟာ (ma.ha) + ပညာ (pa.nya) + ဗလ (ba.la.), borrowed from Pali mahā + Pali paññā + Pali bala.


သုဓမ္မသိင်္ဂီ

/θṵdàɴma̰θèɪɴɡì/

သုဓမ္မ (su.dhamma.) + သိင်္ဂီ (singgi), borrowed from Pali sudhamma + Pali siṅgī.

(Buddhism) title conferred by the Burmese government to Buddhist civilians.


မင်္ဂလသုတ်

/mɪ̀ɴɡəla̰θoʊʔ/


ဘက္ကဒီးအစ်

/bɛʔkədíʔɪʔ/


အစ်

From Hindi ईद (īd), from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd).


တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့

head

တပေါင်းလပြည့်နေ့ • (ta.paung:la.prany.ne.)

တပေါင်း (ta.paung:) + လပြည့်နေ့ (la.prany.ne.)


အဆိုတော်

အဆို (a.hcui, “singing”) + -တော် (-tau, “to be suitable, good at”).


သရုပ်ဆောင်

/θəjoʊʔsʰàʊɴ/

သရုပ် (sa.rup) + ဆောင် (hcaung), with the first element borrowed from Pali sarūpa.


ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း

(music) traditional Burmese orchestra, consisting of drums, gongs, oboe, clappers, etc.


သုဒ္ဓေါဒန

(Buddhism) Suddhodana, father of Gautama Buddha


ဒေဝဒတ်

(Buddhism) Devadatta, cousin and former disciple of Gautama Buddha


ရာဟုလာ

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Rahula, son of Gautama Buddha


ယသောဓရာ

/ja̰θɔ́dəjà/

(Buddhism) Yasodhara, former wife of Gautama Buddha


သာရိပုတ္တရာ

/θàjḭpoʊʔtəjà/

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Sariputta, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


မဟာမောဂ္ဂလာန်

/məhàmaʊʔɡəlàɴ/

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Maudgalyayana, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


မဟာကဿပ

Learned borrowing from Pali Mahākassapa.

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Maha Kassapa, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


အနုရုဒ္ဓါ

/ʔənṵjoʊʔdà/

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Anuruddha, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


ဥပါလိ

(Buddhism) Upali, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


သရီရ

From Pali sarīra, ultimately from Sanskrit शरीर (śarīra, “body”).


မဟာယာန

From Pali Mahāyāna or Sanskrit महायान (mahāyāna).


ဟီနယာန

From Pali Hīnayāna or Sanskrit हीनयान (hīnayāna).

(Buddhism) Theravada, also known as Hinayana (pejorative)


သိဒ္ဓတ်မင်း

/θeɪʔdaʔmɪ́ɴ/

သိဒ္ဓတ် (siddhat) + မင်း (mang:), with the first element from Pali siddhattha, ultimately from Sanskrit सिद्धार्थ (siddhārtha).

(Buddhism) Siddhartha, the personal name of Gautama Buddha


သိဒ္ဓတ္ထ

From Pali siddhattha, ultimately from Sanskrit सिद्धार्थ (siddhārtha).

(Buddhism) Siddhattha, the 19th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဝဇီရာ

From Pali vajira, ultimately from Sanskrit वज्र (vajra).


ဝိပဿနာ

From Pali vipassanā, ultimately from Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā).


ထေရဝါဒ

ထေရ (htera., “elder”) + ဝါဒ (wada., “doctrine”); from Pali theravāda, from Sanskrit स्थविरवाद (sthaviravāda).


သိဒ္ဓိ

From Pali siddhi, ultimately from Sanskrit सिद्धि (siddhi).


တိုးနရား

my-noun

တိုးနရား • (tui:na.ra:) (classifier ကောင်)

na.ra: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) fabulous creature that inhabits the Himalayas.


ကိန္နရာ

kinna.ra (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) kinnara, mythical bird with human head and torso


ကိန္နရီ

kinna.ri (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) kinnari, female mythical bird with human head and torso


မကန်း

ma.kan: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) mythical sea monster resembling a crocodile with a prehensile snout

(mythology) mythical marine creature resembling a large crayfish


ကရဝိက်

ka.ra.wik (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

From Pali karavīka, cognate with Sanskrit कलविङ्क (kalaviṅka).

(mythology) mythical bird with a melodious voice


ဂဠုန်

ga.lun (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) garuda; mythical king of birds and also the enemy of the naga.


ဝလာဟကမြင်း

ဝလာဟကမြင်း • (wa.laha.ka.mrang:) (classifier ကောင်)

wa.laha.ka.mrang: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

ဝလာဟက (wa.laha.ka., “sky”) + မြင်း (mrang:, “horse”), with the first element from Pali valāhaka.

af

(mythology) mythical flying horse; Pegasus


မနုဿီဟ

my-noun

မနုဿီဟ • (ma.nu.ssiha.) (classifier ကောင်)

ma.nu.ssiha. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

မနုဿ (ma.nu.ssa., “human”) + သီဟ (siha., “lion”), from Pali manussīha.

af

(mythology) chimeric creature with a man's torso and a lion's hindquarters, depicted in a squatting posture on forked haunches


ပြိတ္တာ

pritta (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)


ဒါန

(Buddhism) dana, one of the Ten Perfections


ကပ်

Borrowed from Pali kappa. Doublet of ကမ္ဘာ (kambha).


ကပ်

→ Shan: ၵၢပ်ႈ (kāap)

Inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(g/k)(w)ap (“join, adhere”). Compare Old Chinese 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb, “to join”) and 盍 (OC *ɡaːb, “to unite”) (STEDT).

inh+

(Buddhism, honorific) to offer (reverently)


ဇာတ်တော်

my-noun

ဇာတ်တော် • (jattau)

ဇာတ် (jat) + -တော် (-tau), with the first element from Pali jātaka.


ကွမ်ရင်မယ်တော်

/kwàɴjɪ̀ɴmɛ̀dɔ̀/

ကွမ်ရင် (kwam-rang, “Guanyin”) + မယ်တော် (maitau, “royal mother”), with the first element from Mandarin 觀音 /观音 (Guānyīn).


မယ်တော်

my-noun

မယ်တော် • (maitau)

(Buddhism, honorific) mother (of Buddhist monks)


ခမည်းတော်

(Buddhism, honorific) father (of Buddhist monks)

(Buddhism, honorific) father (of Buddhist sāmaṇeras)


ဇာတ်ကြီးဆယ်ဘွဲ့

/zàtd͡ʑísʰɛ̀bwɛ̰/

Calque of Pali dasajātaka, ဇာတ် (jat, “tale”) + ကြီး (kri:, “great”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + ဘွဲ့ (bhwai.).

af

Mahanipata Jataka
Mahanipata Jataka#English

(Buddhism) Mahanipata Jataka, the ten great birth stories (or jatakas) of the Buddha


ဓမ္မပါလ

From Sanskrit धर्मपाल (dharmapāla) via Pali dhammapāla.

(Buddhism) dharmapala, a Buddhist deity; protector of Buddhism


ဂိရိမေခလာ

/ɡḭɹḭmèkʰəlà/

Learned borrowing from Pali Girimekhalā.


မြင်းမိုရ်

မြင်း (mrang:, “old”) + မိုရ် (muir, “Meru”), with the second element from Pali Meru.

(Buddhism, Hinduism) Mount Meru in Buddhist mythology


ဝီရိယ

(Buddhism) viriya, one of the Ten Perfections


ခန္တီ

(Buddhism) patience or forbearance, one of the Ten Perfections


အဓိဋ္ဌာန်

(Buddhism) determination, one of the Ten Perfections


ဥပေက္ခာ

(Buddhism) equanimity or serenity, one of the Ten Perfections


အလောင်း

→ Shan: ဢလွင်း (ʼǎ láung)

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + a component လောင်း (laung:) from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-lwaŋ (“body, corpse, discarded object”). Cognate with Tangut [script needed] (lɪ̯wụ², “body”); see also လွင့် (lwang., “to be blown away”) (STEDT).

inh

(Buddhism) one who is progressing towards a state of enlightenment


ဘုရားအလောင်း

desc

→ Shan: ၽြႃးဢလွင်း (phráa ʼǎ láung)

→ Shan: ၽြႃးဢလွင်း (phráa ʼǎ láung)

/pʰəjáʔəláʊɴ/

ဘုရားလောင်း ဘုရားလောင်း#Burmese

(Buddhism) Alternative form of ဘုရားလောင်း (bhu.ra:laung:)


ဘုရားလောင်း

(Buddhism) future Buddha; one who is destined for Buddhahood; bodhisattva


မဟာသာဝက

မဟာ (ma.ha, “great”) + သာဝက (sawa.ka., “disciple”), borrowed from Pali mahāsāvaka.


မာရ်နတ်

my-noun

မာရ်နတ် • (marnat)

→ Shan: မႃႇၼၢတ်ႈ (màa nāat)

မာရ် (mar) + နတ် (nat), with the first element from Pali māra.

(Buddhism) Mara, the malevolent celestial emperor antagonistic towards enlightenment and salvation.


မာရ်

မာရ် • (mar)


ဆင်ဝင်

→ Shan: သၢင်ႇဝၢင်ႇ (sàang wàang)


ဌာပနာ

→ Shan: ထႃႇပၼႃႇ (thàa pǎ nàa)


ပစ္စယာ

→ Shan: ပဵတ်ႈၸယႃႇ (pāet tsǎ yàa)

(Buddhism, architecture) terrace (of a pagoda)


ထီးတင်

→ Shan: တၢင်ႇထီး (tàang thíi)

(Buddhism) to crown a pagoda with an ornamental umbrella


ဂိုဏ်းအုပ်

ဂိုဏ်းအုပ် • (guin:up)

desc

→ Shan: ၵိူင်းဢုပ်ႉ (kóeng ʼṵ̂p)

→ Shan: ၵိူင်းဢုပ်ႉ (kóeng ʼṵ̂p)

→ Shan: ၵႅင်းဢုပ်ႉ (kéng ʼṵ̂p)

→ Shan: ၵႅင်းဢုပ်ႉ (kéng ʼṵ̂p)

ဂိုဏ်း (guin:) + အုပ် (up), with the first element borrowed from Pali gaṇa.

ဂိုဏ်းချုပ် ဂိုဏ်းချုပ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) assistant to a ဂိုဏ်းချုပ် (guin:hkyup)


ဂိုဏ်းထောက်

my-noun

ဂိုဏ်းထောက် • (guin:htauk)

→ Shan: ၵိူင်းထွၵ်ႈ (kóeng thāuk)

ဂိုဏ်း (guin:) + ထောက် (htauk), with the first element borrowed from Pali gaṇa.

ဂိုဏ်းအုပ် ဂိုဏ်းအုပ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) assistant to a ဂိုဏ်းအုပ် (guin:up)


ဘိက္ခု

ဘိက္ခု • (bhikhku.) (classifier ပါး or ဦး)

bhikhku. (romanization)
ပါး (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)


ဝိနည်း

→ Shan: ဝီႉၼႄး (wḭ̂i náae)

(Buddhism) Vinaya, one of three canons of the Tripitaka


ညောင်ဗောဓိ

desc

ၺွင်ႇပေႃးထီႉ

→ Shan: ၺွင်ႇပေႃးထီႉ (nyàung páu thḭ̂i)

→ Shan: ၺွင်ႇပေႃးထီႉ (nyàung páu thḭ̂i)

ဗောဓိညောင် ဗောဓိညောင်#Burmese

(Buddhism) Alternative form of ဗောဓိညောင် (bau:dhi.nyaung)


ဇိန

→ Shan: ၸီႉၼႃႉ (tsḭ̂i nâ̰a), ၸီးၼႃႉ (tsíi nâ̰a)


ဂိုဏ်းချုပ်

my-noun

ဂိုဏ်းချုပ် • (guin:hkyup)

desc

ၵိူင်းၶျုၵ်ႈ

→ Shan: ၵိူင်းၶျုၵ်ႈ (kóeng khjūk)

→ Shan: ၵိူင်းၶျုၵ်ႈ (kóeng khjūk)

/ɡáɪɴd͡ʑoʊʔ/

ဂိုဏ်း (guin:) + ချုပ် (hkyup), with the first element borrowed from Pali gaṇa.

(Buddhism) head of monastic association belonging to a religious sect


ဝစီကံ

From Pali vacīkamma, decomposed into ဝစီ (wa.ci) + ကံ (kam).

ကံသုံးပါး ကံသုံးပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) verbal action (one of three types of action in Buddhist philosophy, also known as ကံသုံးပါး (kamsum:pa:))


ကာယကံ

From Pali kāyakamma, decomposed into ကာယ (kaya.) + ကံ (kam).

ကံသုံးပါး ကံသုံးပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) bodily action (one of three types of action in Buddhist philosophy, also known as ကံသုံးပါး (kamsum:pa:))


မနောကံ

From Pali manokamma, decomposed into မနော (ma.nau:) + ကံ (kam).

ကံသုံးပါး ကံသုံးပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) mental action (one of three types of action in Buddhist philosophy, also known as ကံသုံးပါး (kamsum:pa:))


ယာမာ

From Sanskrit यम (yama), Pali yama. Cognate with Thai ยม (yom), Khmer យម (yum).


ပြဿဒါး

(Myanmar, astrology) inauspicious day; ill-fated day


ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးဘုရား

my-noun

ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးဘုရား • (bhun:tau-kri:bhu.ra:)

/pʰóʊɴdɔ̀d͡ʑípʰəjá/

ဘုန်း (bhun:, “glory”) + တော် (tau, “royal”) + ကြီး (kri:, “great”) + ဘုရား (bhu.ra:, “lord”)

af

(Buddhism, honorific, of a monk) respectful form of address used for Buddhist monks


ပိဋကတ်တိုက်

ပိဋကတ် (pi.ta.kat, “Pitaka”) + တိုက် (tuik, “chamber”)

(historical) royal library or repository housing Buddhist scriptures


လခြမ်းဆိုင်း

/la̰d͡ʑáɴsʰáɪɴ/

လခြမ်း (la.hkram:, “half moon”) + ဆိုင်း (hcuing:, “orchestra”)

compound

(music) graduated chime of ten gongs mounted in a crescent-shaped vertical frame


ယွန်းထည်

ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”) + ထည် (htany, “ware”).


စိတ္တဇပန်းချီ

စိတ္တဇ (citta.ja., “insanity”) + ပန်းချီ (pan:hkyi, “painting”)


ဘဒ္ဒန္တ

(Buddhism, honorific) Venerable, a form of address for Buddhist monks, often prefixed to a Buddhist monk's monastic name (cf. "his venerable")


သာသနာ့အာဇာနည်

/θàθəna̰ʔàzànì/

From သာသနာ့ (sasa.na., “Buddhist doctrine”) + အာဇာနည် (ajanany, “hero”), ultimately from Pali sāsana + Pali ājāneyya.

(Buddhism) a government-recognized title granted to exemplar Buddhist monks who have successfully passed Tipiṭakadhara (oral) and Tipiṭakakovida (written) monastic examinations


ဝိနိစ္ဆယ

(Buddhism) judgement or decision (in religious or ecclesiastical matters)


ဉာဏ်တော်

my-noun

ဉာဏ်တော် • (nyantau)

(Buddhism, architecture) height of a pagoda or image of the Buddha


ဘကကျောင်း

/ba̰ka̰t͡ɕáʊɴ/

Abbreviation of ဘုန်းကြီး (bhun:kri:) + ကျောင်း (kyaung:)

af

(Buddhism) monastic school run by Buddhist monks


ဥဏှိဿ

/ʔṵn̥eɪʔθa̰/

(Buddhism) top of the head of the Buddha


မဏိတော်

(Buddhism) upper part of the Buddha's sacred hair knot


ဥဏ္ဏလုံမွေးရှင်

/ʔòʊɴnəlòʊɴm̥wéʃɪ̀ɴ/

ဥဏ္ဏလုံ (unna.lum) + မွေး (mwe:, “hair”) + ရှင် (hrang, “live”)

com

(Buddhism) mark on the forehead of the Buddha


ဥဏ္ဏလုံ

/ʔòʊɴnəlòʊɴ/


ကိတ်

my-noun

ကိတ် • (kit)

နက္ခတ် နက္ခတ်#Burmese

(astrology) the twenty-eighth lunar asterism; though the lunar asterism, i.e. nakshatra (နက္ခတ် (nakhkat)) consists of twenty-seven lunar mansions, indeed.


ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ

/tʰɛʔwɛ̀pʰwɛ̰kʰwè/

ထက်ဝယ် (htak-wai) is a borrowing from Mon (ဂဇံ)ထဝါဲ (“to sit cross-legged”), with Burmese verbs ဖွဲ့ (hpwai., “to bind together”) and ခွေ (hkwe, “to coil, to curl”) added. See also Burmese ထားဝယ် (hta:wai).

(Buddhism, also applied to Kings) to sit cross-legged


အကော်ဒီယံ

/ʔəkɔ̀dìjàɴ/


အဝတာရ

Borrowed from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra) or Pali avatāra.


မြင်းမိုရ်တောင်

/mjɪ́ɴmòtàʊɴ/

မြင့် (mrang., “high”) + မိုရ် (muir, “meru”) + တောင် (taung, “mountain”), with the second element from Pali Meru.

af

(Buddhism, Hinduism) Mount Meru in Buddhist mythology


ဟော်တယ်

my-noun

ဟော်တယ် • (hautai)

Borrowed from English hotel, from French hôtel.


တဏှင်္ကရာ

/tən̥ɪ̀ɴkəɹà/

(Buddhism) Taṇhaṅkara, the 1st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


မေဓင်္ကရာ

/mèdɪ̀ɴkəɹà/

(Buddhism) Medhaṅkara, the 2nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သရဏင်္ကရာ

/θəɹənɪ̀ɴkəɹà/

Learned borrowing from Pali Saraṇaṅkara.

(Buddhism) Saraṇaṅkara, the 3rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဒီပင်္ကရာ

/dìpɪ̀ɴkəɹà/

(Buddhism) Dīpaṃkara, the 4th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ကောဏ္ဍည

Koṇḍañña Koṇḍañña

(Buddhism) Koṇḍañña, the 5th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


မင်္ဂလ

From Pali Maṅgala. Doublet of မင်္ဂလာ (mangga.la).

(Buddhism) Maṅgala, the 6th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သုမန

(Buddhism) Sumana, the 7th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ရေဝတ

(Buddhism) Revata, the 8th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သောဘိတ

(Buddhism) Sobhita, the 9th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


အနောမဒဿီ

/ʔənɔ́mədətθì/

(Buddhism) Anomadassi, the 10th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ပဒုမ

(Buddhism) Paduma, the 11th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


နာရဒ

(Buddhism) Nārada, the 12th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ပဒုမုတ္တရ

(Buddhism) Padumuttara, the 13th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သုမေဓာ

(Buddhism) Sumedha, the 14th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သုဇာတ

(Buddhism) Sujāta, the 15th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ပီယဒဿီ

(Buddhism) Piyadassi, the 16th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


အတ္တဒဿီ

(Buddhism) Atthadassi, the 17th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဓမ္မဒဿီ

(Buddhism) Dhammadassī, the 18th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


တိဿ

(Buddhism) Tissa, the 20th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဖုဿ

(Buddhism) Phussa, the 21st of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဝိပဿီ

(Buddhism) Vipassī, the 22nd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


သိခီ

(Buddhism) Sikhī, the 23rd of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ဝေဿဘူ

(Buddhism) Vessabhū, the 24th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ကကုသန်

(Buddhism) Kakusandha, the 25th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ကောဏဂုံ

(Buddhism) Koṇāgamana, the 26th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


ကဿပ

(Buddhism) Kassapa, the 27th of 27 named Buddhas immediately preceding Gautama


အရိမေတ္တေယျ

(Buddhism) Maitreya, the future Buddha to succeed Gautama


ဂေါတမဘုရား

/ɡɔ́təma̰pʰəjá/

ဂေါတမ (gau:ta.ma.) + ဘုရား (bhu.ra:), the first element from Pali Gotama.


သူယောင်

(mythology) fabulous creeper in the Himalayas said to bear flora in the form of nymphs


သူယောင်မယ်

သူယောင် သူယောင်#Burmese

(mythology) flower of the သူယောင် (suyaung) plant transformed into a beautiful maid through supernatural means


ဟေတုပစ္စယော

/hètṵpɪʔsəjɔ́/

(Buddhism, philosophy) hetu-paccaya, the six "root conditions" (attachment, anti-attachment, aggressiveness, anti-aggressiveness, ignorance, and wisdom) that engender all thoughts and feelings in Buddhist philosophy


ပတ်ဝိုင်း

ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း#Burmese

(music) drum circle in the traditional Burmese orchestra ensemble (ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း (hcuing:wuing:))


ဗုဒ္ဓဝါဒီ

(Buddhism) Buddhist, a practitioner or follower of Buddhism


နိမိတ်ကြီးလေးပါး

/nəmeɪʔ t͡ɕí lé pá/

နိမိတ် (ni.mit) + ကြီး (kri:) + လေး (le:) + ပါး (pa:)

compound

(Buddhism) vision of four persons (the aged, the sick, the dead and the recluse) as seen by the Bodhisattva Prince Siddhartha


ငါးပါးသီလ

ငါး (nga:, “five”) + ပါး (pa:, “classifier”) + သီလ (sila., “morals, precepts”). Calque of Pali pañcasīla.


ပူး

(astronomy, astrology) to be in conjunction


သောက်တော်ခွက်

my-noun

သောက်တော်ခွက် • (sauktauhkwak)

/θaʊʔdɔ̀kʰwɛʔ/

သောက် (sauk) + တော် (tau) + ခွက် (hkwak).


ပုည

From Pali puñña. Compare Mon ပိုန် and Shan ပုင်ႇၺႃႇ (pùng nyàa).

(literary, formal) good deed, meritorious deed


ကောင်းမှု

→ Jingpho: kawngmu

ကောင်း (kaung:, “good”) + မှု (hmu., “particle”)


ယက္ခ

From Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa, “yakṣa”). Cognate with យក្ស (yĕək); Lao ຍັກ (nyak) and Thai ยักษ์ (yák). Compare Pali yakkha.


သိဟ်

my-noun

သိဟ် • (sih)


ရှင်ဖ

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

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


ရှင်မွေ့

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

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


ကိုရင်

ကို (kui, “polite prefix to a young man's name”) + ရင် (rang, “chest”).


ကျီးတာရာ

ကျီး (kyi:, “crow”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Perseus (constellation)


ချိန်တာရာ

/t͡ɕʰèɪɴtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) constellation of stars from the hind legs of Ursa Major


ဆံကျင်တာရာ

/sʰàɴt͡ɕɪ̀ɴtàjà/

ဆံ (hcam) + ကျင် (kyang, “star”) + တာရာ (tara)

(astrology, astronomy) Coma Berenices (constellation)


ဆင်တာရာ

(astrology, astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)


တံငါတာရာ

တံငါ (tamnga, “fisherman”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Hercules (constellation)


ပုစွန်တာရာ

/bəzʊ̀ɴtàjà/

ပုစွန် (pu.cwan, “prawn”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) constellation comprising stars from the head, and forelegs of the Great Bear (Ursa Major)


ဗျိုင်းတာရာ

ဗျိုင်း (byuing:, “egret”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Cassiopeia (constellation)


ဟင်္သာတာရာ

/hɪ̀ɴθàtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) Auriga (constellation)


မြင်းတာရာ

မြင်း (mrang:, “horse”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Cepheus (constellation)


တုသိတာ

(Buddhism) Tushita, fourth of the six levels inhabited by nats or celestial lords in Buddhist cosmology


စတုမဟာရာဇ်

Learned borrowing from Pali catumahārājā.

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(Buddhism) Cātummahārājika, first of the six levels inhabited by nats or celestial lords in Buddhist cosmology


ပရနိမ္မိတဝသဝတ္တီ

/pəɹa̰nèɪɴmḭta̰wəθaʔtì/

Learned borrowing from Pali paranimmita vasavattī.

(Buddhism) Paranimmita-vasavatti, sixth of the six levels inhabited by nats or celestial lords in Buddhist cosmology


နိမ္မာနရတိ

/nèɪɴmànəɹətḭ/

Learned borrowing from Pali nimmānarati.

(Buddhism) Nimmānaratī, fifth of the six levels inhabited by nats or celestial lords in Buddhist cosmology


ဂေါပက

(Buddhism, honorific) pagoda or monastery trustee


အနတ္တ

Borrowed from Pali anattā; see English anatta for more.


ရဝေတိုင်

ရဝေ (ra.we, “palace”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

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ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင် ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင် (kubbhi:tuing)


သပြေတိုင်

သပြေ (sa.pre, “Eugenia”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

ညောင်ရမ်းတိုင် ညောင်ရမ်းတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the ညောင်ရမ်းတိုင် (nyaung-ram:tuing)


ဥရူတိုင်

ကြငှန်းတိုင် ကြငှန်းတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the ကြငှန်းတိုင် (kra.hngan:tuing)


ကြငှန်းတိုင်

/t͡ɕəŋ̊áɴdàɪɴ/

ကြငှန်း (kra.hngan:, “palace”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

ဥရူတိုင် ဥရူတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the ဥရူတိုင် (u.rutuing)


ညောင်ရမ်းတိုင်

/ɲàʊɴjáɴdàɪɴ/

ညောင်ရမ်း (nyaung-ram:, “Nyaungyan era”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

သပြေတိုင် သပြေတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the သပြေတိုင် (sa.pretuing)


ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင်

/koʊʔbídàɪɴ/

ကုဗ္ဘီး (kubbhi:, “food offering”) + တိုင် (tuing, “post”)

ရဝေတိုင် ရဝေတိုင်#Burmese

one of six major foundational posts in a Burmese home or building, parallel to the ရဝေတိုင် (ra.wetuing)


ဆင်ဖိုနီ

/sʰɪ̀ɴpʰònì/


ဗေဒင်ဆရာ

/bèdɪ̀ɴsʰəjà/

ဗေဒင် (bedang, “astrology”) + ဆရာ (hca.ra, “master”)


ရာသီရုပ်

my-noun

ရာသီရုပ် • (rasirup)

ရာသီ (rasi, “zodiac”) + ရုပ် (rup, “figure, appearance”)


မိဿ

(astrology) Aries, the first sign of the zodiac


ပြိဿ

(astrology) Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac


ကရကဋ်

(astrology) Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac


ကုံ

(astrology) Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac


မိန်

my-noun

မိန် • (min)

(astrology) Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac


မကရ

(astrology) Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac


ရူပါရုံ

Learned borrowing from Pali rūpārammaṇa.

senses: အာရုံငါးပါးeditဂန္ဓာရုံဖေါဋ္ဌဗ္ဗာရုံရသာရုံရူပါရုံသဒ္ဒါရုံ


ပဉ္စသီလ

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) + သီလ (sila., “morals, virtues”). Learned borrowing from Pali pañcasīla, Sanskrit पञ्चशील (pañcaśīla).


ရှစ်ပါးသီလ

/ʃɪʔbáθìla̰/

ရှစ် (hrac, “eight”) + ပါး (pa:, “classifier”) + သီလ (sila., “morals, precepts”). Calque of Pali aṭṭhaṅga-sīla.


အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသီလ

/ʔaʔtʰɪ̀ɴɡa̰θìla̰/

Learned borrowing from Pali aṭṭhaṅga-sīla.


ခိုဒါ

Borrowed from Urdu خدا (xudā), Classical Persian خدا (xudā). Compare Bengali খোদা (khōda), Hindi ख़ुदा (xudā).


ပုဏ္ဏ

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

Puṇṇa Mantānīputta
Puṇṇa Mantānīputta#English

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Puṇṇa Mantānīputta, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


ပုဏ္ဏမန္တာနီပုတ္တ

head

ပုဏ္ဏမန္တာနီပုတ္တ • (punna.mantaniputta.)

Learned borrowing from Pali Puṇṇa Mantānīputta.

lbor

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

ပုဏ္ဏ ပုဏ္ဏ#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Alternative form of ပုဏ္ဏ (punna.)


သုဘူတိ

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Subhūti, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


မဟာကစ္စည်း

Learned borrowing from Pali Mahākaccāna.

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Katyayana, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


ဂေါပကအဖွဲ့

/ɡɔ́pəka̰ʔəpʰwɛ̰/

ဂေါပက (gau:pa.ka., “trustee”) + အဖွဲ့ (a.hpwai., “board, organisation”)

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(Buddhism) board of trustees (for a Buddhist monastery or institution)


အာနန္ဒာ

head

အာနန္ဒာ • (ananda)

my-proper noun

အာနန္ဒာ • (ananda)

ရှင် ရှင်#Burmese

ထေရ် ထေရ်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (ရှင်~, ~ထေရ်) Ananda, one of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha


မာယာ

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

(Buddhism) (မယ်တော်~) Maya, the mother of Gautama Buddha


နှဲ

(music) a traditional Burmese double reed woodwind akin to an oboe


သုဂတိ

(Buddhism) the three pleasant realms of existence


ကောင်းရာသုဂတိ

/káʊɴjàθṵɡədḭ/

ကောင်း (kaung:) + ရာ (ra) + သုဂတိ (su.ga.ti.)

com

(Buddhism, idiomatic) better future existence (cf. better place in English)


သံဝေဂ

(Buddhism) apprehension at the prospect of a continuum of rebirths; samvega


သတ္တသိန္ဓု

/θaʔta̰θèɪɴdṵ/

သတ္တ (satta., “seven”) + သိန္ဓု (sindhu., “rivers”).

(Hinduism) Sapta Sindhu, the seven sacred rivers in Indian mythology


ပေါက်

my-noun

ပေါက် • (pauk)

och-l

剽 (OC *pʰews, *bew, “to attack, pierce”)

cog

Tibetan བྱུང (byung, “to appear, emerge”)

Tibetan ཕྲུག (phrug, “young (of animals)”)

och-l

扑 (OC *pʰoːɡ, “to beat, strike against”)

(music) pitch (in traditional Myanmar music)


ဇမ္ဗူဒီပါ

Borrowed from Pali jambudīpa, decomposed into ဇမ္ဗူ (jambu) + ဒီပါ (dipa)

(Buddhism, Hinduism) island which is the home of the Eugenia tree and lies south of Mount Meru


စတီရီယိုတေးစီးရီး

my-noun

စတီရီယိုတေးစီးရီး • (ca.tiriyuite:ci:ri:)

/sətìɹìjòtésíɹí/

စတီရီယို (ca.tiriyui, “stereo”) + တေးစီးရီး (te:ci:ri:, “album”)


တေးစီးရီး

တေး (te:, “song”) + စီးရီး (ci:ri:, “series”)


စတီရီယို

(music) Western-style pop and rock music


ဗုံ

a double-headed drum made of rawhide skins stretched taut over a hollow wooden cylinder


ကော်ပီသီချင်း

/kɔ̀pìθət͡ɕʰɪ́ɴ/

ကော်ပီ (kaupi, “copy”) + သီချင်း (sihkyang:, “song”). Cognate with English copy song.

(music) copy song, a song written to the tune of another existing song


မိုနို

(music, dated) music played on Burmese state radio


ယွန်းထည်သရိုး

/jʊ́ɴtʰìθəjó/

ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”) + ထည် (htany, “item”) + သရိုး (sa.rui:)


ယွန်းပေါင်ပုရပိုက်

my-noun

ယွန်းပေါင်ပုရပိုက် • (ywan:paungpu.ra.puik)

/jʊ́ɴbàʊɴpəɹəbaɪʔ/

ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”) + ပေါင် (paung) + ပုရပိုက် (pu.ra.puik, “folding book manuscript”)

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(art) decorated lacquer cover for a folded parabaik


ယွန်းပန်း

ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”) + ပန်း (pan:, “flower”)


ယွန်းပန်းချီ

/jʊ́ɴbəd͡ʑì/

ယွန်း (ywan:, “lacquer”) + ပန်းချီ (pan:hkyi, “painting”)


ယိုးဒယားကြေးသွား

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + ကြေး (kre:, “copper, gong”) + သွား (swa:, “to go”)

(music) Yodaya tune giving prominence to the gong circle


ယိုးဒယားဆယ့်နှစ်ခန်း

my-noun

ယိုးဒယားဆယ့်နှစ်ခန်း • (yui:da.ya:hcai.hnachkan:)

/jódəjásʰɛ̰n̥əkʰáɴ/

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + ဆယ့်နှစ် (hcai.hnac, “twelve”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “chapter”)

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(music) twelve varieties of Yodaya songs

en-ယိုးဒယားဆယ့်နှစ်ခန်း-my-noun-QOPPwWBX


ယိုးဒယားနှဲသွား

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + နှဲ (hnai:, “type of flute”) + သွား (swa:, “to go”)

(music) Yodaya tune giving prominence to the Burmese flute


ယိုးဒယားသံရှစ်မျိုး

my-noun

ယိုးဒယားသံရှစ်မျိုး • (yui:da.ya:samhracmyui:)

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + သံ (sam, “sound”) + ရှစ် (hrac, “eight”) + မျိုး (myui:, “kinds”)


ယိုးဒယားသမင်လိုက်

my-noun

ယိုးဒယားသမင်လိုက် • (yui:da.ya:sa.mangluik)

/jódəjáθəmɪ̀ɴlaɪʔ/

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + သမင် (sa.mang, “deer”) + လိုက် (luik, “chase”)

com

(music) Yodaya style of a deer chase song (in the Ramayana)


ယိုးဒယားအက

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + အက (a.ka., “dance”)


ယိုးဒယားသီချင်း

/jódəjáθət͡ɕʰɪ́ɴ/

ယိုးဒယား (yui:da.ya:, “Siamese, Thai”) + သီချင်း (sihkyang:, “song”)

(music) a song from the Yodaya style (from the Mahāgīta)


မဟာဒုတ်

(Buddhism) a type of communal almsgiving activity


မဟာဒုတ်

(Buddhism) Mahāduggata, a character from the Theravada Buddhist canon


ဒသပါရမီ

/dəθa̰pàɹəmì/

ဒသ (da.sa., “ten”) + ပါရမီ (para.mi, “perfections”).

ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး#Burmese

(Buddhism) Synonym of ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)


မဟာဘုတ်

(astrology) one of the basic methods of casting a horoscope


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


အဆို

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဆို (hcui, “to say, sing”).


ကဗျာဆရာ

/ɡəbjàsʰəjà/

ကဗျာ (ka.bya, “poem”) + ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher, artisan”).


လွန်း

(astrology) term for a particular celestial abode


သင်းပိုင်

(Buddhism) monk's waistcloth (lower garment)