မတ်

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


ဝိုင်

Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.


လောက

From Pali loka (“world”), from Sanskrit लोक (loka, “world”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“open space”), from *lewk- (“shine”).


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”).


ကျောင်းသား

→ Jingpho: jawng sa

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


ကျောင်းသူ

From ကျောင်း (kyaung:, “school”) + -သူ (-su, “female resident, inhabitant, member”).

student (female), pupil (female), schoolgirl


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


ဆေးရုံ

→ Shan: သေးယူင်ႇ (sée yùung)

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


သွား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa. Cognate with Jingpho wa (“tooth”) and Tibetan སོ (so).


သွား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-wa (“to be in motion, go, come”), which appears to be the same as *s-wa-ŋ. Cognate with Old Chinese 于 (OC *ɢʷa, “to proceed, go”) (STEDT).

inh

မသွားနဲ့။
ma.swa:nai.||
Don't go!


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”).

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


ကျပ်

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gyap (cf. Chinese 狹／狭 (xiá, “narrow”)).

(to be) tight (pushed or pulled together)


မြစ်

ncog

Tibetan གྲོད་པ (grod pa, “first stomach”)

Tibetan བརྒྱུད (brgyud, “to transmit; descendants”)


သမီး

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


သည်းခြေ

သည်း (sany:, “liver”) + ခြေ (hkre, “bile”).


နှပ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nap. Cognate with နှာ (hna, “nose; errhine, snuff”) and with Tibetan སྣབས (snabs, “snot”).


အသည်း

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သည်း (sany:, “liver”).

af

liver (large organ in the body; this organ used for food)


လျှာ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej. Cognate with Tibetan ལྕེ (lce) and Chinese 舌 (shé).


နို့

stud anchoring the traverse guy ropes on a dragon boat


တူ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”).


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.-) + ဖ (hpa.), the latter element from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *pʷa (“father, husband, person”)


အမိ

From အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မိ (mi., “mother”).

af

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


အမေ

→ Mon: အမေ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မေ (me, “term of endearment for a female”).


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.


သစ်သီး

သစ် (sac, “wood”) + အသီး (a.si:, “fruit”)

af

fruit (sweet part of a plant used as food)


ပါး

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ba² (“thin”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“thin, flat”). Cognate with Nuosu ꁧ (bbo), Jingpho pha (“thin”), Drung ba (“thin”) (> svba (“to make thin”)), S'gaw Karen ဘူ (boo, “thin”), Old Chinese 薄 (OC *baːɡ, “thin, flimsy”) (STEDT).
The "send" sense is equated with the "thin" sense by MED, though STEDT apparently separates the two and gives no etymology for "send" (pâ "send ( by hand or person )").

thin (having little thickness; very narrow; slender; flimsy)


ပါး

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ba² (“cheek”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-ba (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (bà, “cheek”) (STEDT).

inh

cheek (soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes)


ပါး

→ Shan: ပႃး (páa)

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


ညီမ

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


သွေး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t. Cognate with Chinese 血 (xuè) and Nuosu ꌦ (sy).

blood (vital liquid flowing in animal bodies)


အကို

Reduced pronunciation of အစ်ကို (ackui).


အရိုး

အ- (a.-) + ရိုး (rui:, “bone”), the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rus.


အမြီး

အ (a.) + မြီး (mri:), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj.


အတောင်

feather (branching, hair-like structure that grows on the wings of birds)


အရေ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ရေ (re, “skin”).

af

skin (outer covering of the body), hide, pelt


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).


ချို

(colloquial) to not do anything to the fullest extent; to not go full out


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.


နားရွက်

ear (external part of the organ of hearing), outer ear, auricle, pinna


အမွေး

အ- (a.-) + မွေး (mwe:), the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l. Cognate with Lolopo me (“body hair”), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun (“feather”).

hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)


နှာခေါင်း

နှာ (hna, “nose”) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”)


ဆံပင်

hcampang (romanization)
ပင် (classifier)

ဆံ (hcam, “hair”) + ပင် (pang, classifier for long strands)

af

hair (pigmented keratinaceous growth on the human head)


ပါးစပ်

mouth (opening of an animal through which food is ingested)


ခေါင်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”), and thus related to Etymology 1 (STEDT).


မျက်စိ

The first syllable is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjak ~ s-mik (“eye”) (whence Old Chinese 目 (OC *muɡ, “idem”)) (STEDT).


နား

Combining form of အနား (a.na:, “vicinity”).

သင်္ကြန်နား


ခြေ

Inherited from Old Burmese ခြိယ် (khriy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj (“foot, footstool”).

inh

particle suffixed to nouns to denote a collection of things or persons


လက်

Inherited from Old Burmese လက် (lak), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak. Cognate with Tibetan ལག (lag, “hand, arm”) and Nuosu ꇇ (lot, “hand”).


ခြေထောက်

ခြေ (hkre, “foot”) + ထောက် (htauk, “support”)


ဒူးခေါင်း

ဒူး (du:, “knee”) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”)


တောင်ပံ

From တောင် (taung, “wing”) + an element of unclear interpretation and origin ပံ (pam).


ဗိုက်

my-noun

ဗိုက် • (buik)


ဒူး

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *du-k (“elbow, knee”); cognate with Galo [Term?] (a du, “forearm span”), Akha [script needed] (kuiˇ du, “lower leg from knee down”) (STEDT).


ပေါင်

The "thigh" sense is from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(p/b)waŋ (“hips, buttocks, tail, anus”), and cognate with Tibetan ཕོངས (phongs, “buttock”) (STEDT). Luce adduces no further possible cognates for the "thigh" sense.
The "add, attach" and "pawn, mortgage" senses are linked with the "thigh" sense by MED (perhaps as "thighs" are an "attachment" to the body), but apparently separated by STEDT and given no etymology (poŋ "superadd lengthwise; attach to the side of", "pawn, mortgage"). Luce combines the "add" and "pawn" meanings together etymologically (perhaps via semantic association of "putting side-by-side (attaching)" with "pawning items that are juxtaposed"), though adduces no cognates.


အူ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wu (“belly; stomach; intestine; kidney”). Cognate with Nuosu ꃶ (vu), Tangut 𗎨 (*wju², “intestines”).


နှလုံး

Likely from an earlier unattested form *နှစ်လုံး (*hnaclum:), from the same နှစ် (hnac) found in အနှစ် (a.hnac, “substance, yolk”) (ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-nik (“heart, mind”)), + လုံး (lum:, “round object”) (STEDT: hnə lûm ( < hnac-lûm) "heart").


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), Chinese 漆 (OC *sʰiɡ).

medicine (substance which promotes healing)


ကျောက်

my-noun

ကျောက် • (kyauk)

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လောက် (klok). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”)


ပခုံး

Compound from *ပ (*pa.) (from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“to carry (on back); shoulder”) or *p(r)ak ~ r-pak (“shoulder”), likely ပိုး (pui:, “to carry on back”)) and ခုံး (hkum:, “arched, convex”).


ဘီး

Derived from STEDT by a Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gʷəy² (“comb”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ʔ-gʷəy-s (“comb (for hair)”), and compared with Mizo [Term?] (khuih, “comb”). Note also more overt similarities to Old Chinese 篦 (OC *piː, *bis, “fine-tooth comb”).

inh

comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)


ဘီး

wheel (circular device facilitating movement or transportation)


ဝမ်း

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *pʷam (“belly, stomach, waist”), which appears to be related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bʷam ~ s-bʷap (“to swell; swollen, fat, thick; rounded part, mountain, hill”) (STEDT). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (pù-hpam, “stomach”), as well as, according to Luce, Old Chinese 範 (OC *bomʔ, “mold; pattern”); a more distant cognate from *s-bʷa(m/p) is Old Chinese 胖 (OC *pʰaːns, “fat (adjective)”).


နှာ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-na ~ s-naːr (“nose”). Cognate with Tibetan སྣ (sna, “nose”).

inh

errhine, snuff, sternutatory (substance)


မုတ်ဆိတ်

my-noun

မုတ်ဆိတ် • (muthcit)

Borrowed from Hindi मूछ (mūch, “mustache”).


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


ဖူး

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


မျက်မှန်

myakhman (romanization)
လက် (classifier)

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + မှန် (hman, “glass”)

affix

မျက်မှန်တလက်


ဇနီး

Borrowed from Sanskrit जनी (janī, “bride, daughter-in-law”), perhaps via Hindi.


လက်သည်

လက် (lak, “arm”) + -သည် (-sany, “practitioner”)


ဝမ်းဆွဲ

ဝမ်း (wam:, “womb”) + ဆွဲ (hcwai:, “pulling”)


မျက်တောင်

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + တောင် (taung, “mountain”)

affix

eyelash (hair growing on the edge of an eyelid)


မျက်နှာ

မျက်- (myak-) + နှာ (hna), literally “eye and nose”.


မေးစေ့

မေး (me:, “lower jaw”) + စေ့ (ce., “protuberance”)


ခြေဖနောင့်

/t͡ɕʰèbəna̰ʊɴ/

ခြေ (hkre, “foot”) + ဖနောင့် (hpa.naung., “heel”)


အဖျား

အ- (a.-) + ဖျား (hpya:, “be feverish, have a fever”)


ဥယျာဉ်

Borrowed from Pali uyyāna, from Sanskrit उद्यान (udyāna, “garden, royal park”).


ဆရာဝန်

desc

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Jingpho: săra wun / tsi săra wun

/sʰa̰jàwʊ̀ɴ/

ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher”) + ဝန် (wan, “responsibility”).


ဝှေးစေ့

ဝှေး (hwe:) + စေ့ (ce.). Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əy (“egg; testicle”) (STEDT).


ကျင်ချောင်း

/t͡ɕɪ̀ɴt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/


အာယုဗ္ဗေဒ

Borrowed from Pali āyubbeda, from Sanskrit आयुर्वेद (āyurveda).


ယောနိ

Borrowed from Pali yoni (“womb; origin”), from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).


မောင်

(honorific) term of endearment to a younger male; form of address to younger man used by women


ဖရုံဆွဲ

/pʰəjòʊɴzwɛ́/


သွားတိုက်ဆေး

my-noun

သွားတိုက်ဆေး

/θwádaɪʔsʰé/


ဗော့ဒ်ကာ

ဗော့ဒ်ကာ • (baud.ka)


နွားမ

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


နွားထီး

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


မြေခွေး

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


မျက်ခုံး

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + အခုံး (a.hkum:, “convexity”)


ကပ်ပယ်

my-noun

ကပ်ပယ် • (kappai) (classifier ခု or လက်)

kappai (romanization)
ခု (classifier)
လက် (classifier)


အဆုတ်

အ- (a.-) + ဆုတ် (hcut), the latter element inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(i/u)-t (“lung”). Compare Lahu ɔ̀-chɨ̂.


လက်ချောင်း

/lɛʔt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “classifier for thin, long objects”)


ကျောက်ကပ်

my-noun

ကျောက်ကပ် • (kyaukkap)


နို့သီးခေါင်း

နို့သီးခေါင်း


မြေးမ

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


ဘိုးဘိုး

grandfather; form of respectful address to an old man


အဘွား

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


အဘိုး

အဖိုး အဖိုး#Burmese


အာရုံကြော

/ʔàjòʊɴd͡ʑɔ́/


ဖဝါး

(anatomy) sole (of the foot); palm (of the hand)


ချေ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-kəy (“barking deer, deer”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ci (“deer”), Naxi qiq (“muntjac”), S'gaw Karen တခံ (takhee, “deer”), Jingpho chäkhji (“barking deer”).


ဦးနှောက်

my-noun

ဦးနှောက် • (u:hnauk)

From ဦး (u:) + နှောက် (hnauk); the latter from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw-k (“brain”). Cognate with Nuosu ꀑꆊ (o not, “brain”), Old Chinese 腦 (OC *nuːʔ), Jingpho nu' (“brain”), Drung unu (“brain; mind”), Japhug tɯrnoʁ, S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်နူာ် (khoh̀noọ, “brain”).


နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

my-noun

နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

/n̥əkʰáʊɴbaʊʔ/


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).


သွားဖုံး

သွား (swa:, “tooth”) + အဖုံး (a.hpum:, “cover, lid”)


သန္ဓေ

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


သားအိမ်

my-noun

သားအိမ် • (sa:im)


ကိုယ်

ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”).


ဇီဝဗေဒ

From Pali jīva (“life”) + veda (“knowledge”).


ဇီဝဓာတုဗေဒ

From Pali jīva (“life”) + dhātu (“element”) + veda (“knowledge”).


အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ

From Pali aṇu (“small”) + jīva (“life”) + veda (“knowledge”).

my:အဏုဇီဝဗေဒ


နှုတ်

နှုတ် • (hnut)


အသည်းနှလုံး

/ʔəθɛ́n̥əlóʊɴ/


လည်

to revolve, to turn around, to rotate, to spin


ချက်ကြိုး

/t͡ɕʰɛʔt͡ɕó/


ကလျာ

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


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


ခဲအို

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


ယောက်ဖ

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


ခယ်မ

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


ဦးကြီး

uncle, specifically mother's elder brother


ဒေါ်လေး

ဒေါ်လေး • (daule:)

aunt, specifically mother's younger sister


ဒေါ်ကြီး

aunt, specifically mother's elder sister


အရီးကြီး

aunt, specifically father's elder sister


အရီးလေး

aunt, specifically father's younger sister


ဘကြီး

uncle, specifically father's elder brother


ဘထွေး

uncle, specifically father's youngest brother


ယောက္ခထီး

/jaʊʔkʰətʰí/


ဘလေး

uncle, specifically father's younger brother


သမက်

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


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").


အရီး

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


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).


ဒူးဝါး

Borrowed from Jingpho duwa (“chieftain”).

bor+

ဒူဝါ ဒူဝါ#Burmese


နောင်

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


ဗိုက်ကြီး

my-verb

ဗိုက်ကြီး • (buikkri:)

ဗိုက် (buik, “stomach”) + ကြီး (kri:, “grow”)


ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်

/kòjwʊ̀ɴsʰàʊɴ/


ဓမ္မတာဝန်

/dəmədàwʊ̀ɴ/

From Pali dhammatā (“general rule; nature”) + ဝန် (wan).


မီးယပ်

→ Shan: မီးယၢပ်ႈ (míi yāap)


ကိုယ်ဝန်

my-noun

ကိုယ်ဝန် • (kuiywan)


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”).


အရေပြား

အရေ (a.re, “skin”) + ပြား (pra:, “flat”)


ဆီးအောင့်ရောဂါ

/sʰíʔa̰ʊɴjɔ́ɡà/

ဆီး (hci:, “urine”) + အောင့် (aung., “hamper”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “disease”)


အဖျားဖြတ်ဆေး

အဖျား (a.hpya:) + ဖြတ် (hprat) + ဆေး (hce:)


လူပျို

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


ဩသဓ

Borrowed from Pali osadha. Cognate with Khmer ឱសថ (ʼaosɑt), Indonesian usada, Thai โอสถ (oo-sòt).


ဖငယ်

ပထွေး ပထွေး#Burmese

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


မိငယ်

မိထွေး မိထွေး#Burmese

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


ကြီးကြီး

ဒေါ်ကြီး ဒေါ်ကြီး#Burmese

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


ကင်ပွန်း

(botany) soap acacia, also known as shikakai (Acacia concinna)


မျိုးစိတ်

my-noun

မျိုးစိတ် • (myui:cit)


ကပ်ရောဂါ

ကပ် (kap, “catastrophe”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “disease”)


ရောဂန္တရကပ်

/jɔ́ɡàɴtəɹa̰kaʔ/

From Pali roga + Pali antara + Pali kappa.


စိတ္တဇရောဂါ

/seɪʔdəza̰jɔ́ɡà/

စိတ္တဇ (citta.ja., “insanity”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “illness”)


သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း • (sa:imlam:kraung:)

/θəʔèɪɴláɴd͡ʑáʊɴ/

From သားအိမ် (sa:im, “womb”) + လမ်းကြောင်း (lam:kraung:, “channel”).


သားအိမ်ခေါင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်ခေါင်း • (sa:imhkaung:)

/θəʔèɪɴɡáʊɴ/

From သားအိမ် (sa:im) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”).


ကလျာဏီ

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


မီးယပ်ပညာ

/míjaʔpjɪ̀ɴɲà/

မီးယပ် (mi:yap, “menses”) + ပညာ (pa.nya, “knowledge”).


မျက်လုံး

မျက်- (myak-, “eye”) + လုံး (lum:, “round”)

prefix

Holonym: မျက်စိ (myakci.)


ရှမ်ပိန်

my-noun

ရှမ်ပိန် • (hrampin)


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)”)


အနောင်

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


အမင်း

ဦးလေး ဦးလေး#Burmese

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


မေကြီး

အဘွား အဘွား#Burmese

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


အဘ

အ (a., “nominal prefix”) + ဘ (bha., “father”).

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)


ကိုရင်

မောင်ရင် မောင်ရင်#Burmese


မမ

(colloquial, honorific) term of endearment for females


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


မျိုးရင်း

မျိုး (myui:, “kind, category, family”) + ရင်း (rang:, “to be related”)


မျိုးစဉ်

မျိုး (myui:, “kind, category, family”) + စဉ် (cany, “order”)


မျိုးပေါင်း

မျိုး (myui:, “category, group”) + ပေါင်း (paung:, “to combine”)


မျိုးပေါင်းစု

မျိုးပေါင်း (myui:paung:, “class”) + စု (cu., “to group”)


လက်ညှိုး

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ညှိုး (hnyui:, “to fade, to wither”)


လက်သူကြွယ်

/lɛʔðù+'t͡ɕwɛ̀/

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + သူကြွယ် (su-krwai, “wealthy person”)


လက်ခလယ်

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ခလယ် (hka.lai, “middle, centre”)


လက်မ

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + မ (ma., “main, principal”)


မီးဖွားခွင့်

/mípʰwákʰwɪ̰ɴ/

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


ခွဲစိတ်ကုပညာ

From ခွဲစိတ် (hkwai:cit) + ကု (ku.) + ပညာ (pa.nya).


အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ

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


သွေးကင်ဆာ

/θwékɪ̀ɴsʰà/

သွေး (swe:) + ကင်ဆာ (kanghca), literally “blood cancer”.


ကင်ပွန်းချဉ်

/kɪ̀ɴbʊ́ɴd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/

/kɪ̀ɴmʊ́ɴd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/

ကင်ပွန်း (kangpwan:, “soap acacia”) + ချဉ် (hkyany, “sour”).


ဒူဝါ

Borrowed from Jingpho duwa (“chieftain”).

bor+

ဒူဝါလရှီးလ
duwala.hri:la.
Duwa Lashi La

(honorific) a title used by Kachin chieftains