မြန်မာ

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မြန်မာ • (mranma) (induced creaky tone form မြန်မာ့)

→ Japanese: ミャンマー (Myanmā)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Sanskrit ब्रह्मादेश (brahmādeśa, “country of Brahma”), a compound of ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + देश (deśa, “country”) or from a Proto-Sino-Tibetan root related to Chinese 蠻／蛮 (mán, “barbarian”) and Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”). Historical alternative spellings include မြမ္မာ (mramma) and မြံမာ (mramma). See also Proto-Austroasiatic *mraʔ (“person”).

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ

မြန်မာပြည်

မြန်မာစာ

မြန်မာဘာသာစကား ― mranmabhasaca.ka: ― Burmese language

မြန်မာလူမျိုး

မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

ကျွန်တော်က မြန်မာပါ။ ― kywantauka. mranmapa|| ― I am Burmese (male speaker).

ကျွန်မက မြန်မာပါ။ ― kywanma.ka. mranmapa|| ― I am Burmese (female speaker).

ပြည်ထောင်စုမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်

pranyhtaungcu.mranmanuingngamtau /pjìdàʊɴzṵ mjàɴmà nàɪɴŋàɴdɔ̀/


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


မေ

Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“woman; female relative”).


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


င

Nga, the fifth letter of the Burmese alphabet


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.

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(Buddhism) pagoda, stupa, Buddhist temple

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


ချစ်

Inherited from Old Burmese ချတ် (khyat) or Old Burmese ခေတ် (khet), ultimately inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kri(k/ŋ) (“to love”). Cognate with Zaiwa [script needed] (ˀcit), Tibetan [script needed] (h̥kʻrig-pa, “to copulate”) (STEDT). Compare also Old Chinese 吉 (OC *klid, “auspicious”) (Hill 2019, p. 228).


နေ

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔnəj¹/³, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun; day”). Cognate with Old Chinese 日 (OC *njiɡ), Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi ma).

a unisex given name from Proto-Sino-Tibetan or Sino-Tibetan


ရုရှား

ရုရှားနိုင်ငံ

ရုရှားစာ

ရုရှားဘာသာ ― ru.hra:bhasa ― Russian language

ရုရှားစကား ― ru.hra:ca.ka: ― Russian language

Russia (A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia); Russian


အင်္ဂလိပ်

→ Jingpho: Inglik

→ Jingpho: Inggălik

→ Jingpho: Ing-galik

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→ Mon: အင်္ဂလိက်

→ Mon: အင်္ဂလိက်

→ Shan: ဢဵင်းၵလဵတ်ႈ (ʼáeng kǎ lāet)

→ Shan: ဢဵင်းၵလဵတ်ႈ (ʼáeng kǎ lāet)

/ʔɪ̀ɴɡəleɪʔ/

Semi-learned borrowing from English English. Doublet of အင်္ဂလိၑ်. Compare Thai อังกฤษ (ang-grìt).

doublet

Doublet of အင်္ဂလိၑ်

အင်္ဂလိပ်စာ

အင်္ဂလိပ်စကား ပြောတတ်လား။
angga.lipca.ka: prau:tatla:||
Do you speak English?

အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ ― angga.lipbhasa ― English language

အင်္ဂလိပ်စကား ― angga.lipca.ka: ― English language

my:အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာစကား


တရုတ်

Uncertain. Formerly spelt တရုပ် (ta.rup), with earliest usage dating to the 1200s (Bagan era), during which it referred to the territory and a variety of peoples to the north and northeast of Burma. May be derived from 突厥 (Tūjué), the Chinese term for "Turk;" 大理國／大理国, the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom; or 大月支 (dàyuèzhī) or 大月氏, a Chinese term referring to Mongol-speaking Kushan Huns.

တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ

တရုတ်စာ

တရုတ်ဘာသာ ― ta.rutbhasa ― Chinese language

တရုတ်စကား ― ta.rutca.ka: ― Chinese language


အိန္ဒိယ

အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ

my:အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ


ဝ

Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.


ဝ

→ English: Wa

→ Shan: ဝႃႉ (wâ̰a)


ဝ

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

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


ပန်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“to bloom; flower”), which is perhaps an areal word (compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *bi̯aŋ (“flower”)). Cognate with Tibetan [script needed] (ḥbar-ba, “to blossom”), Old Chinese 葩 (OC *pʰraː, “flower”), 疤 (OC *praː, “scar”) (STEDT). The "red, pink" sense is derived from how the color of many flowers is pink.

cog

my:ပန်း (သံတူကြောင်းကွဲ)


အေး

och-l

凜 (OC *b·rɯmʔ, *ɡrɯm, “freezing cold, solemn”)


ကြယ်

Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo gie (“star”), Naxi geeq (“star”), Japhug ʑŋgri (“star”).


မိုး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-məw (“sky, clouds, fog”). Doublet of မြူ (mru, “fog”).
The "roof, hold over, tower" senses are considered equivalent to the "sky" sense by MED, but possibly different by STEDT (amui: "roof"). They appear to be semantic extensions from "sky" > "what lies above" > "roof, hold over".


ဝါ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/s-wa (“white; yellow; bright”), which is part of a complex word family with many allofams. More distant cognates from the allofam *hwaŋ (“shine, bright, yellow”) include ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”) and Old Chinese 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”) (STEDT).


ဖြူ

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖ္လူ (phlu), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *plu¹ (“white, silver, money”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *plu (“idem”). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (hpraw, “white”) (STEDT).


နီ

Inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-ni¹ (“red”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ni (“red”). Cognate with Nuosu ꅪ (hni) and Lolopo ni; outside of Lolo-Burmese, compare Old Chinese 怩 (OC *nil, “ashamed”), 恥 (OC *n̥ʰɯʔ, “shame, disgrace”) (STEDT).


ချမ်း

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kyam (“cold, snow, ice”). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (khyēn, “snow, ice, frost”) (STEDT).


မြင့်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-raŋ (“high; long”). Cognate with Nuosu ꀊꂥ (a hmu, “tall, high”), Lolopo mu (“high, tall”) and Drung mrvng (“long, tall”), Mongsen Ao tə́-hláŋ.


စိန်

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စိန် • (cin)

my-proper noun

စိန် • (cin)


လာအို

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လာအို • (laui)

လာအိုနိုင်ငံ

လာအိုစာ

လာအိုဘာသာ ― lauibhasa ― Lao language

လာအိုစကား ― lauica.ka: ― Lao language

Laos (a country in Southeast Asia); Lao; Laotian

my:လာအိုနိုင်ငံ


သိန်း

သိန်း • (sin:)

my-proper noun

သိန်း • (sin:)


ဂျပန်

Borrowed from English Japan, from Portuguese Japão or Dutch Japan, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún).

ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ

ဂျပန်စာ

ဂျပန်ဘာသာ ― gya.panbhasa ― Japanese language

ဂျပန်စကား ― gya.panca.ka: ― Japanese language


လှ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-hla (“soul, demon, god; beautiful”) (STEDT).


ညို

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Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ŋow (“white, green, yellow, blue”)


မျိုး

→ Shan: မဵဝ်း (máeo) / မျူဝ်း (mjó)

→ Lü: ᦙᦷᦍ (myo)

→ S'gaw Karen: မၠိ (myoh)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Old Chinese 物 (OC *mɯd, “thing, matter, substance”); see there for more cognates.


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”).

cog

ထက်ဝယ်ဖွဲ့ခွေ

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး

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


အောင်

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အောင် • (aung)

my-proper noun

အောင် • (aung)

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔoŋ¹ (“win, complete”); forms outside Lolo-Burmese, like Jingpho [script needed] (ʔōŋ, “to conquer, overcome”), are probably borrowed from Burmese (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 贏 (OC *leŋ, “to win”) (which is constructed with a uvular *ɢ by Baxter and Sagart; uvulars in Proto-Sino-Tibetan seem to be dropped in Burmese).


ဘုန်းကြီးကျောင်း

/pʰóʊɴd͡ʑít͡ɕáʊɴ/

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

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


ထိုင်း

ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ

ထိုင်းစာ

ထိုင်းဘာသာ ― htuing:bhasa ― Thai language

ထိုင်းစကား ― htuing:ca.ka: ― Thai language

ထိုင်းအက္ခရာ

Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia); Thai

my:ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ


ဟိန္ဒီ

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ဟိန္ဒီ • (hindi)


ချင်း

→ Shan: ၶျၢင်း (khjáang)

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

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


ကေ

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေသ (kesa.) and ကေသာ (kesa).


ခင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *kaŋ (“father, grandfather, honorific”). See also Old Chinese 翁 (OC *qloːŋ, “old man”) and 公 (OC *kloːŋ, “duke, high-ranked male”) for further discussion of possible cognates.


မြ

Possibly from Sanskrit मरकत (marakata, “emerald”) or Pali marakata (“emerald”). Compare Tibetan མར་གད (mar gad, “emerald”).


စန္ဒာ

Borrowed from Pali canda, from Sanskrit चन्द्र (candra). Doublet of စန္ဒြာ (candra).


ဂျာမန်

ဂျာမန်နိုင်ငံ

ဂျာမန်စာ

ဂျာမန်ဘာသာ ― gyamanbhasa ― German language

ဂျာမန်စကား ― gyamanca.ka: ― German language


ပြင်သစ်

→ Jingpho: pyin tit

Ultimately from French France or franc (“Frank”).

ပြင်သစ်နိုင်ငံ

ပြင်သစ်စာ

ပြင်သစ်ဘာသာ ― prangsacbhasa ― French language

ပြင်သစ်စကား ― prangsacca.ka: ― French language

France (a country in Western Europe); French


အီတလီ

အီတလီနိုင်ငံ

အီတလီစာ

အီတလီဘာသာ

အီတလီစကား

Italy (a country in Southern Europe); Italian


မလေးရှား

မလေးရှားနိုင်ငံ

မလေးရှားစာ

မလေးရှားဘာသာ

မလေးရှားစကား

Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia); Malaysian


ကိုရီးယား

ကိုရီးယားနိုင်ငံ

ကိုရီးယားစာ

ကိုရီးယားဘာသာ

ကိုရီးယားစကား


မွန်ဂိုးလီးယား

/mʊ̀ɴɡólíjá/

မွန်ဂိုးလီးယားနိုင်ငံ

မွန်ဂိုးလီးယားစာ

မွန်ဂိုးလီးယားဘာသာ ― mwan-gui:li:ya:bhasa ― Mongolian language

မွန်ဂိုးလီးယားစကား ― mwan-gui:li:ya:ca.ka: ― Mongolian language


ဗီယက်နမ်

ဗီယက်နမ်နိုင်ငံ

ဗီယက်နမ်စာ

ဗီယက်နမ်ဘာသာ

ဗီယက်နမ်စကား

Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia); Vietnamese


အင်ဒိုနီးရှား

/ʔɪ̀ɴdòníʃá/

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားစာ

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားဘာသာ

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားစကား

Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia); Indonesian


စပိန်

စပိန်နိုင်ငံ

စပိန်စာ

စပိန်ဘာသာ ― ca.pinbhasa ― Spanish language

စပိန်စကား ― ca.pinca.ka: ― Spanish language

Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula); Spanish


ခမာ

ခမာစာ

ခမာဘာသာ ― hka.mabhasa ― Khmer language

ခမာစကား ― hka.maca.ka: ― Khmer language


ကကြီး

Karmadhāraya compound of က (ka.) + ကြီး (kri:, “big”).

com

name of the letter က, the first letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ခကွေး

name of the letter ခ, the second letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဂငယ်

name of the letter ဂ, the third letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ရဲ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-(r/y/w)ay (“bold, heroic”). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (huāi, “bold, daring”) (STEDT). Luce additionally adduces Old Chinese 烈 (OC *red, “ardent, fiery”) as a cognate. This is semantically appealing, though the final in the Old Chinese reconstruction does not seem to match.
The senses of "brave", "bright red", "rampant", and "police" are all grouped together by MED.


ဆလိမ်

name of the letter ဆ, the seventh letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဇကွဲ

name of the letter ဇ, the eighth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဈမျဉ်းဆွဲ

ဈ (jha.) + မျဉ်းဆွဲ (myany:hcwai:, “to demarcate”).

com

name of the letter ဈ, the ninth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ညကလေး

name of the letter ဉ, alternative form of ည, the tenth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


စလုံး

name of the letter စ, the sixth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဃကြီး

name of the letter ဃ, the fourth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ညကြီး

name of the letter ည, the tenth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ချက်

Borrowed from English Czech, from Czech Čech.


ဝဏ္ဏ

Borrowed from Pali vaṇṇa (“appearance”).


တင်

Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“top; to rise”). Luce gives Old Chinese 置 (OC *tɯɡs, “to place”) as a cognate, though this comparison seems outdated.


ဥက္ကာ

head

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

my-proper noun

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

Borrowing from Pali ukkā, from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā).


သင်္သကရိုက်

/θɪ̀ɴθəkəɹaɪʔ/

Borrowed from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta).


ဗလီ

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


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


ရှမ်း

→ English: Shan

→ Thai: ฉาน (chǎan)

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

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

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


ဌေး

Borrowed from Pali seṭṭhi (“millionaire”), from Sanskrit श्रेष्ठीन् (śreṣṭhīn).

der

Sanskrit श्रेष्ठीन् (śreṣṭhīn)


သော်တာ

head

သော်တာ • (sauta)

my-proper noun

သော်တာ • (sauta)

Borrowed from Sanskrit सुधांशु (sudhāṃśu, literally “nectar-eyed”).


ဘုန်း

Said by the Myanmar–English Dictionary to have been borrowed from Pali bhaga, but this is phonologically unlikely. Perhaps from Sanskrit पुण्य (puṇya) or Pali puñña.


ဉာဏ်

From Pali ñāṇa. Doublet of ဉာဏ (nyana.) and Doublet of ဉာဉ် (nyany).


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)


ရရစ်

the name of letter ◌ြ used to modify consonant sounds.


ဟထိုး

the name of letter ◌ှ used to modify consonant sounds.


မောက်ချ

/maʊʔt͡ɕʰa̰/

the name of letter ါ presenting /a/ sound.


ယပင့်

the name of letter ◌ျ used to modify consonant sounds.


ဝိုက်ချ

/waɪʔt͡ɕʰa̰/

the name of letter ာ presenting /a/ sound.


ရေးချ

the name that refers to either letter ါ or ာ presenting /a/ sound.


ဝဆွဲ

the name of letter ◌ွ used to modify consonant sounds.


ဝင်း

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“shine; bright; yellow”). Cognate with 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”); more distant cognates include ဝါ (wa, “yellow”) (STEDT).


ဇေ

Contraction of ဇေယျ (jeyya.), borrowed from Pali jaya.


ဥမ္မာ

head

ဥမ္မာ • (umma)

my-proper noun

ဥမ္မာ • (umma)


အိန္ဒြေ

head

အိန္ဒြေ • (indre)

my-proper noun

အိန္ဒြေ • (indre)

Alternative spelling of ဣန္ဒြေ (indre), borrowed from Pali indriya.


သူရ

Borrowed from Pali sura (“deity”) or Pali sūra (“sun”).


အဉ္ဇလီ

Borrowed from Pali añjali. Cognate with Thai อัญชลี (an-chá-lii).


အိန္ဒြာ

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အိန္ဒြာ • (indra)

my-proper noun

အိန္ဒြာ • (indra)

Alternative spelling of ဣန္ဒြာ (indra), borrowed from Sanskrit इन्द्र (indra). Doublet of ဣန္ဒါ (inda).


သူရိန်

head

သူရိန် • (surin)

my-proper noun

သူရိန် • (surin)

Borrowed from Pali suriya or Sanskrit शूर (śūra) + Sanskrit इन्द्र (indra). Doublet of သူရိယ (suri.ya.).


ကလျာ

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


သိင်္ဂီ

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သိင်္ဂီ • (singgi)

my-proper noun

သိင်္ဂီ • (singgi)


ဘရဏီ

Borrowed from Pali bharaṇī (“bearer, maintainer, sustainer; a constellation”).


ဟေမန်

Borrowed from Pali hemanta. Doublet of ဟေမန္တ (hemanta.).


ဥဂ္ဂါ

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ဥဂ္ဂါ • (ugga)

my-proper noun

ဥဂ္ဂါ • (ugga)


သီရိ

Borrowed from Pali siri, from Sanskrit श्री (śrī), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćriHrás. Doublet of သိန် (sin).


နီလာ

Borrowed from Pali nīla (“blue”), thus "blue (gem)". Cognate with Mon နဳလာ, Shan ၼီႇလႃႇ (nìi làa), Jingpho nila.


ရာဇာ

Alternative spelling of ရာဇ (raja.), borrowed from Pali rājan.


ကေသ

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေ (ke) and ကေသာ (kesa).


အာရာမ

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


သီတာ

Borrowed from Pali sītā or Sanskrit सीता (sītā).


အုန်း

head

အုန်း • (un:)

my-proper noun

အုန်း • (un:)


သျှမ်း

→ English: Shan

ရှမ်း ရှမ်း#Burmese

Shan, a northern Tai-speaking ethnic group.

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


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


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)


ဇာနည်

Contraction of အာဇာနည် (ajanany), from Pali ājāneyya.


စန္ဒြာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्र (candra). Doublet of စန္ဒာ (canda).


နတ်နန်း

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


ဘုံကျောင်း

/bòʊɴd͡ʑáʊɴ/

/bòʊɴt͡ɕáʊɴ/


ဘုရားကျောင်း

/pʰəjád͡ʑáʊɴ/


ဘုရားရှိခိုးကျောင်း

my-noun

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

/pʰəjáʃḭkʰód͡ʑáʊɴ/

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


မလေး

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး#Burmese


ပသျှူး

→ Mon: ပရှူ

လူမျိုး လူမျိုး#Burmese


ကယား

→ English: Kayah

Kayah, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

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


ရခိုင်

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

ငှက်ပျော ငှက်ပျော#Burmese

(~ငှက်ပျော) Mysore banana, a local cultivar grown in Myanmar


ရခိုင်

→ English: Rakhine

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→ Mon: ယခေၚ်

→ Mon: ယခေၚ်

→ Shan: ယၶႅင်ႇ (yǎ khèng)

→ Shan: ရၶႅင်ႇ (rǎ khèng)

Rakhine, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)

ပြည်နယ် ပြည်နယ်#Burmese

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


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)


ကသည်း

→ Shan: ၵသေး (kǎ sée)

Khasi, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


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)


အင်းသား

→ English: Intha

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

af

Intha, 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)


မရမာ

→ English: Marma

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


တောင်သူ

→ English: Taungthu

→ Shan: တွင်ႇသူႇ (tàung sùu)

→ Lao: ຕອງສູ້ (tǭng sū)


မရမာကြီး

/məɹəmàd͡ʑí/

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


ဓနု

→ English: Danu

→ Shan: တၼူႉ (tǎ nṵ̂u)

→ Shan: ထၼူႉ (thǎ nṵ̂u)

Danu, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)


ယမင်း

Elision of ယဉ် (yany, “cultured”) + မင်း (mang:, “noble”)


ရာမည

desc

→ Khmer: រាមញ្ញ (riəmaññĕəʼ)

→ Khmer: រាមញ្ញ (riəmaññĕəʼ)

→ Lao: ລາມັນ (lā man)


ဌဝမ်းဘဲ

/tʰa̰wʊ́ɴbɛ́/

name of the letter ဌ, the twelfth letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဒထွေး

name of the letter ဒ, the 18th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဏကြီး

name of the letter ဏ, the 15th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


လဆွဲ

the name of subscripted diacritic ္လ used to modify consonant sounds in Old Burmese.


ရကောက်

name of the letter ရ, the 28th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဋသန်လျင်းချိတ်

/ta̰θəjɪ́ɴd͡ʑeɪʔ/

ဋ (ta.) + သန်လျင်းချိတ် (sanlyang:hkyit).

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သန်လျင်းချိတ်

name of the letter ဋ, the eleventh letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ဎရေမှုတ်

name of the letter ဎ, the 14th letter of the Burmese alphabet


ဖဦးထုပ်

/pʰa̰ʔútʰoʊʔ/

/pʰa̰ʔoʊʔtʰoʊʔ/

name of the letter ဖ, the 22nd letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ပစောက်

name of the letter ပ, the 21st letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


နငယ်

name of the letter န, the 20th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဠကြီး

name of the letter ဠ, the 33rd letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဘကုန်း

name of the letter ဘ, the 24th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဍရင်ကောက်

/da̰jɪ̀ɴɡaʊʔ/

name of the letter ဍ, the 13th letter of the Myanmar alphabet


ယပက်လက်

name of the letter ယ, the 27th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဓအောက်ခြိုက်

my-noun

ဓအောက်ခြိုက်

/da̰ʔaʊʔt͡ɕʰaɪʔ/

ဓ (dha.) + အောက် (auk) + ခြိုက် (hkruik).

com

name of the letter ဓ, the 19th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


လငယ်

name of the letter လ, the 29th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ထဆင်ထူး

/tʰa̰sʰɪ̀ɴdú/

name of the letter ထ, the 17th letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ဗထက်ခြိုက်

/ba̰tʰɛʔt͡ɕʰaɪʔ/

name of the letter ဗ, the 23rd letter of the Burmese (Myanmar) alphabet


ကရင်နီ

→ English: Karenni

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

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)

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


လားဟူ

Lahu (a Sino-Tibetan-speaking ethnic group)


တရုပ်

တရုတ် တရုတ်#Burmese

(dated) former spelling of တရုတ် (ta.rut, “China, Chinese”)