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]


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.


ဓမ္မ

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


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).


ဇာတ်

ဇာတ် • (jat)

→ Shan: ၸၢတ်ႈ (tsāat)


နဂါး

na.ga: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၼၵႃး (nǎ káa)

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


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


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.


ကြွက်

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


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).


ဟိန္ဒူ

my-adj

ဟိန္ဒူ • (hindu)

ဟိန္ဒူဘာသာ ― hindubhasa ― Hinduism


ဥုံ

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

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


ပုဏ္ဏား

my-noun

ပုဏ္ဏား • (punna:)

From Pali brāhmaṇa, Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brāhmaṇa).


ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ်

/kʊ̀ɴpʰjúʃaʔ/

my:ကွန်ဖြူးရှပ်


ရာမ

(Hinduism) Rama (the protagonist of the Ramayana)


သီတာ

Borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


ဘုရားကိုးဆူ

/pʰəjákósʰù/

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

af

(Hinduism) nine deities represented by the nine planets


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).


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).


မြင်းမိုရ်

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

af

(Buddhism, Hinduism) Mount Meru in Buddhist mythology


ယာမာ

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


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.


သတ္တသိန္ဓု

/θaʔta̰θèɪɴdṵ/

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

com

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


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