မတ်

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


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


ကျောင်းသား

→ Jingpho: jawng sa

From ကျောင်း (kyaung:, “school”) + -သား (-sa:, “male resident, inhabitant, or member of”).


ဆရာ

→ Shan: သြႃႇ (sràa) / သရႃႇ (sǎ ràa)

→ Jingpho: shara

Inherited from Old Burmese ဆာရ်္ယာ, ultimately from Sanskrit आचार्य (ācārya) through some conflation with ဆာယာ (hcaya). Doublet of အာစရိယ (aca.ri.ya.).

ဆရာတင်
hca.ratang
Saya Tin

(honorific) respectful form of address used for teachers, as well as men in general

male practitioner of a particular art or trade


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

he or she (gender-neutral third person pronoun)


သူ

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


ဦး

→ Shan: ဢူး (ʼúu)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-bu-s (“head”) (STEDT).

ဦး သန့်

(honorific) form of address for older men, roughly the average age of one's uncle; sir


သမီး

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


တူ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”). Cognate with Mizo tu (“nephew”), as well as Old Chinese 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) in the obscure sense of "nephew, descendant" as seen in the Erya (STEDT).


ယောက်ျား

my-noun

ယောက်ျား • (yaukya:) (classifier ယောက် or ဦး)

yaukya: (romanization)
ယောက် (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

com+

compound of ယောက် (yauk, “classifier for people”)


မိန်းမ

my-noun

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.


အဖေ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဖေ (hpe, “term to refer to a male”).


အဖ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဖ (hpa., “masculine suffix”). Doublet of အဘ (a.bha.).


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


လင်

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b/m-laŋ, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/m-laŋ (“penis; male; husband”). Cognate with the second syllable of Jingpho [script needed] (ne³¹ laŋ³³, “penis”), Old Chinese 犅 (OC *klaːŋ, “bull, stud”); older comparisons to 郎 (OC *raːŋ, “husband, young man”) are improbable (see there for more) (STEDT).
The "complete" sense is grouped etymologically with the "husband" sense by MED, and isn't mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981.


အကို

Reduced pronunciation of အစ်ကို (ackui).


ညီမ

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


အမ

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


ညီ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *nyey (“younger sibling”). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (à-njí, “younger sibling”) (STEDT). Luce compares additionally Old Chinese 弟 (OC *diːlʔ, *diːls, “younger brother”) (though the initials don't seem to match).


သား

Inherited from Old Burmese သာဟ်, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa ~ za (“child”).


သား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n (“meat”).

numerical classifier used in counting the number of ticals or fractions of a tical or viss


သား

particle suffixed to a verb or adjective to convey the sense of being definite or explicit

word used to lend emphasis to a prayer, wish, oath, etc.


ကို

Inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(g/k)əw-n (“elder brother, senior male relative”). See Old Chinese 舅 (OC *ɡuʔ, “maternal uncle; brother-in-law”) for more cognates (STEDT).

och-l

ကို ဇေယျာ သော်
kui jeyya sau
Ko Zayar Thaw

(honorific) Form of address for younger men


ဒေသိယစကား

/dèθḭja̰zəɡá/

Sanskrit देशीय (deśīya, “native, local”) + စကား (ca.ka:, “language”)


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”)


မောင်

title prefixed to the proper name of a male


နွားမ

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


နွားထီး

နွား (nwa:, “cow”) + -ထီး (-hti:, “male”)


မြေခွေး

မြေ (mre, “soil, earth”) + ခွေး (hkwe:, “dog”)


ဘိုးဘိုး

grandfather; form of respectful address to an old man


မြေးမ

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


အဘွား

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


အဘိုး

အဖိုး အဖိုး#Burmese


အဘိုးကြီး

အဘိုး (a.bhui:, “grandfather”) + ကြီး (kri:, “big”)


ခင်ပွန်း

The first syllable, ခင် (hkang), is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaŋ (“father, grandfather; honorific term for males”), whence perhaps Old Chinese 公 (OC *kloːŋ, “male; duke”), and is also found in ခင်ဗျား (hkangbya:, “you (polite, used by males)”). The second syllable, ပွန်း (pwan:), is from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *bwa (“grandmother”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷa-n ~ *bʷa-n (“idem”), whence ဘွား (bhwa:, “grandmother”) and Old Chinese 婆 (OC *baːl, “old woman; grandmother”) (STEDT).


သန္ဓေ

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


ကလျာ

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


ယောက်ဖ

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


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


ဘလေး

uncle, specifically father's younger brother


ဘထွေး

uncle, specifically father's youngest brother


ခဲအို

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


ခယ်မ

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


ဦးကြီး

uncle, specifically mother's elder brother


ဒေါ်ကြီး

aunt, specifically mother's elder sister


ဒေါ်လေး

my-noun

ဒေါ်လေး • (daule:)

aunt, specifically mother's younger sister


ယောက္ခထီး

/jaʊʔkʰətʰí/


အရီးကြီး

aunt, specifically father's elder sister


ဦးလေး

ဦး (u:, “sir; head”) + လေး (le:, “heavy; to attach importance to”).
The "be hesitant" sense is separated by MED, though also considered etymologically equivalent to the "uncle" sense ("heavy sir" vs "going heavy in the head = hesitant").


သမက်

သား (sa:, “son”) + မက် (mak, “to covet”).


အရီး

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


ဒူးဝါး

Borrowed from Jingpho duwa (“chieftain”).

bor+

ဒူဝါ ဒူဝါ#Burmese


အစ်ကို

my-noun

အစ်ကို • (ackui) (classifier ယောက် or ဦး)

ackui (romanization)
ယောက် (classifier)
ဦး (classifier)

The first syllable, အစ် (ac), is 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 the entry for ကို (kui) for more on the second syllable (STEDT).


ဘကြီး

uncle, specifically father's elder brother

အဘိုး အဘိုး#Burmese

(regional, Danu) Synonym of အဘိုး (a.bhui:, “grandfather”)


အရီးလေး

aunt, specifically father's younger sister


နောင်

(dated, regional, poetic) elder brother of a male (primarily used in compound words)


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”)


ညီနောင်

Dvandva compound of ညီ (nyi, “younger brother”) + နောင် (naung, “elder brother”)


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”).


လူပျို

Karmadhāraya compound of လူ (lu, “human”) + ပျို (pyui, “young”)


ကြီးကြီး

ဒေါ်ကြီး ဒေါ်ကြီး#Burmese

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


ဖငယ်

ပထွေး ပထွေး#Burmese

(dialect) Myeik form of ပထွေး (pa.htwe:)


မိငယ်

မိထွေး မိထွေး#Burmese

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


ကလျာဏီ

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


အနောင်

(regional, Danu) brother-in-law (specifically elder sister's husband, or husband's elder brother)


ရှင်မွေ့

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

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


အမင်း

ဦးလေး ဦးလေး#Burmese

(regional, Danu) Synonym of ဦးလေး (u:le:, “uncle”)


အဘ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဘ (bha., “father”). Doublet of အဖ (a.hpa.).

af

term of endearment for a man who is about the same age as one's father


အဒေါ်

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

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


မေကြီး

အဘွား အဘွား#Burmese

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


ကိုရင်

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

မောင်ရင် မောင်ရင်#Burmese


မမ

(colloquial, honorific) term of endearment for females


ရှင်ဖ

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

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


ကိုကို

Reduplicated form of Burmese ကို (kui), which is inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(g/k)əw-n (“elder brother, senior male relative”).

inh

(honorific) term of endearment applied to one's elder brother or to a male older than oneself


မီးဖွားခွင့်

/mípʰwákʰwɪ̰ɴ/

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


အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ

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


ဒူဝါ

bor+

Borrowed from Jingpho duwa (“chieftain”)

ဒူဝါလရှီးလ
duwala.hri:la.
Duwa Lashi La

(honorific) a title used by Kachin chieftains