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)


စနေ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शनि (śani, “Saturn”).

lbor

စနေဂြိုဟ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး

From Sanskrit बुध (budha, “Mercury”). Cognate with Shan ပုၵ်ႈတႁူး (pūk tǎ húu) and Mon ဗုဒ္ဓဝါ (buddhawā).

cog

Shan ပုၵ်ႈတႁူး (pūk tǎ húu)

ဗုဒ္ဓဟူးဂြိုဟ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


ကြာသပတေး

/t͡ɕàθəpədə/

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati, “Jupiter”), apparently with influence from a वाक्यस्पति (vākyaspati). Cognate with Mon ဗြဴဗတိ.

lbor

ကြာသပတေးဂြိုဟ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


သောကြာ

Inherited from Old Burmese သောက္ကြာ (sokkra), a learned borrowing from Sanskrit शुक्र (śukra). Cognate with Mon သိုက်.

lbor

သောကြာဂြိုဟ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


အင်္ဂါ

head

အင်္ဂါ • (angga)

Borrowed from Sanskrit अङ्गार (aṅgāra). Cognate with Mon အၚာ.

အင်္ဂါဂြိုဟ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


မတ်

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


ဂြိုဟ်

my-noun

ဂြိုဟ် • (gruih)

→ Shan: ၵျူဝ်ႇ (kjò)


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”).


ပြတိုက်

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


ဘူတာရုံ

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


ရုပ်ရှင်ရုံ

/joʊʔʃɪ̀ɴjòʊɴ/

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


ဆေးရုံ

→ Shan: သေးယူင်ႇ (sée yùung)

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


စာကြည့်တိုက်

/sàt͡ɕḭdaɪʔ/

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


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


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)


သွား

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


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).


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


စား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dza (“to eat”). Cognates include Chinese 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ) and Tibetan ཟ (za).


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


ဩစတြေးလျ

/ʔɔ́sətəɹélja̰/

Australia (A country in Oceania comprising the islands of Australia, Tasmania and other smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as a former colony in the British Empire)

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the islands of Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)

ဩစတြေးလျနိုင်ငံ

ဩစတြေးလျတိုက်


ပေါက်တူး

ပေါက်တူး • (pauktu:)

Borrowed from Mon ၜံက်တူ.
*ပေါက် (pauk) + တူး (tu:)


ဘာသာဗေဒ

ဘာသာ (bhasa, “language”) + -ဗေဒ (-beda., “science”), from Pali bhāsā + veda, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā) + वेद (veda).


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


ကျပ်

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

(to be) tight (pushed or pulled together)


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


မြစ်

ncog

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

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


လ

ပေယျာလ ပေယျာလ#Burmese

symbol for ellipsis (see also ပေယျာလ (peyyala.))


သမီး

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


သည်းခြေ

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


လျှာ

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


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).


အသည်း

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

af

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


နှပ်

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

snot, nasal mucus (mucous discharge from the nose)


နို့

stud anchoring the traverse guy ropes on a dragon boat


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).


တူ

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


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.


ပျစ်

Tibetan རྦད་རྦོད (rbad rbod, “thick, dense”)


သစ်သီး

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

af

fruit (sweet part of a plant used as food)


အရွက်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ရွက် (rwak, “leaf”).


အခေါက်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ခေါက် (hkauk, “tree bark”).


အသီး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သီး (si:, “fruit”).


အသီး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သီး (si:, “separate, discrete”).

အသီးအခြား အသီးအခြား#Burmese

(same as အသီးအခြား (a.si:a.hkra:)) separately, variously, differently


အစေ့

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + စေ့ (ce., “seed”).


အကို

Reduced pronunciation of အစ်ကို (ackui).


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)


အမ

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


အရေ

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

af

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


အရိုး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ရိုး (rui:, “bone”).


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


အသား

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သား (sa:, “meat”).


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).


အတောင်

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


အမြီး

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


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


နှာခေါင်း

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


အမွေး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မွေး (mwe:, “hair, fur”).

af

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


ဆံပင်

hcampang (romanization)
ပင် (classifier)

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

com

hair (pigmented keratinaceous growth on the human head)


ပါးစပ်

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


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


ခေါင်း

particle used in counting skeins of yarn and the like


ခေါင်း

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

အခေါင်း အခေါင်း#Burmese


တောင်

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dwaŋ (“cubit”) (STEDT: ʔə toŋ "cubit"), a semantic extension of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dwaŋ (“wing, hand”) (whence the first syllable of တောင်ပံ (taungpam, “wing”)). Cognate with Mizo tong (“cubit”).

cog

ပိတ် နှစ်တောင်


လက်

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

numerical classifier for counting turns in the game of dice


ခြေထောက်

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

According to STEDT, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk (“belly; vitals; hollow object; cave”), whence Old Chinese 腹 (OC *puɡ, “belly, abdomen”). However, the -uik final suggests a borrowing from Mon; as noted on the page for the Chinese term, similar words exist in Mon-Khmer, suggesting an areal relation or a very deep inheritance past the point of reconstructability.


ပြား

Related to Old Chinese 板 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank, board”) (and thus also 版 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank, printing block”)) (Hill 2019, p. 224).

pya (coin equal to one hundredth of a kyat)


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.


ပေါင်

to add on, attach, append, affix (something to make something else stronger, complete, fuller, etc.)


ပေါင်

pound (unit of mass/weight; unit of currency/money)


မြေ

Inherited from Old Burmese မ္လိယ် (mliy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mlij, *m-l(e/ə)j (“earth, country, ground, mud, soil”). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (mí, “earth”), Old Chinese 地 (OC *l'els, “ground, earth”) (STEDT, Hill 2019). The traditional comparison with Old Chinese 室 (OC *hliɡ, “room, dwelling”) is phonetically unconvincing, based on Old Chinese reconstructions.


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").


ကိုက်

my-verb

ကိုက် • (kuik)

According to STEDT, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kuːk ~ *kawk (“to shear, strip, pare”), which may be related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-kawk ~ *s/r-kwak (“outer covering, skin, bark, rind”), for which see ခေါက် (hkauk, “tree bark”). Close cognates from the former root include Garo [script needed] (kik, “to strip”) (STEDT).
That said, as a word with a final -uik, a borrowing from Mon is also possible; compare Mon သ္ကိတ်.

cog

to come up to (expectations, etc.), agree, equal, correspond


ကိုက်

my-noun

ကိုက် • (kuik)

cross-beam bearing against a pair of longitudinal boards lining a sailboat


ခွဲ

Causative of ကွဲ (kwai:). The "half" sense is from a semantic development "divide" > "of a divided portion" > "half".

a traditional Burmese unit of volume equivalent to 2+¹⁄₄ imperial pecks or approximately 20.4574 liters


ပါရှန်ပင်လယ်ကွေ့

/pàʃàɴ pɪ̀ɴlɛ̀ɡwḛ/

ပါရှန် (pahran, “Persian”) + ပင်လယ်ကွေ့ (panglai-kwe., “gulf”)


ရေတွက်

ရေ (re, “count”) + တွက် (twak, “calculate”)

to count (enumerate or determine number)


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”).

inh

medicine (substance which promotes healing)


တိမ်

my-noun

တိမ် • (tim)

cloud (visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air)


တိမ်

my-adj

တိမ် • (tim)

Cognate with Nuosu ꀁꄸ (ix ddi, “shallow”) and Lolopo ddei.


ရေခဲ

ရေ (re, “water”) + ခဲ (hkai:, “to congeal”).


သဲ

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *say² (“sand”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (“earth, sand, soil”). Compare Old Chinese 沙 (OC *sraːl, *sraːls, “sand”).
Proto-Tai *zwɯəjᴬ (“sand”), whence Thai ทราย (saai), Lao ຊາຍ (sāi) and Zhuang saiz, was probably borrowed from Proto-Sino-Tibetan or one of its descendants.


ကန်

→ Shan: ၵၼ်ႇ (kàn)

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


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".


ကျောက်

my-noun

ကျောက် • (kyauk)

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လောက် (klok), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *k-lok ~ k-loŋ (“stone”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”). Perhaps cognate with Old Chinese 玉 (OC *ŋoɡ, “jade”) (STEDT).

inh

(medicine) calculus, gallstone, kidney stone


ကျောက်

my-noun

ကျောက် • (kyauk)

contagious disease
(in particular) smallpox, chickenpox


ရေ

Inherited from Old Burmese ရိယ် (riy), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *rəj¹ (“water”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəj (“water; liquid; body fluid”). Cognate with Pela ɣəi⁵⁵, Tangut 𗋽 (*zjɨ̱r²), and Tshangla ri¹³ (STEDT).

inh

ရေ နှစ်ခွက်


ကြောင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *k-roŋ¹ (“cat, wildcat”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-rwaŋ (“cat, wildcat; tiger”).


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”).


ဘဏ်

Borrowed from English bank, transcribed with a retroflex nasal ဏ (na.) to conform to ဘဏ္ဍာ (bhanda, “property, finances”).


တံတား

tsam⁵⁵ thɔ̃⁵⁵

tsam³¹ thɔ̃³¹

der

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

och-l

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


မြို့

ထိုမြို့ ထိုမြို့#Burmese

(archaic) particle suffixed to a pronoun denoting "other than", mainly used in ထိုမြို့ (htui-mrui.)


ဘီး

Derived by STEDT from 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

The closest possible cognate is Lhao Vo pyi" (“wheel-belt”).

wheel (circular device facilitating movement or transportation)


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”)


နှမ်း

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *(s/ʔ)-nam² (“sesame”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-nam (“idem”); cognate with Akha [script needed] (nm̀, “idem”) (STEDT). Note also Proto-Hmong *hnaŋᴮ (“perilla”), whence White Hmong hnav (“perilla, sesame”).

Sesamum indicum
Sesamum indicum#Translingual

a traditional Burmese unit of length equal to 0.03125 inches (0.79375 mm)


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).


စိန်

my-noun

စိန် • (cin)

→ Shan: ၸိင်ႇ (tsìng)


စိန်

head

စိန် • (cin)

my-proper noun

စိန် • (cin)


စိန်

my-noun

စိန် • (cin)

→ Mon: စိန်

→ Thai: เสน (sěen)

Possibly from Sanskrit चीन (cīna, “lead”) or Pali cīna (“lead”).


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)”).


စိတ်

my-noun

စိတ် • (cit)

a traditional Burmese unit of volume equivalent to 2¼ imperial gallons or approximately 10.2287 liters


နှာ

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

inh

errhine, snuff, sternutatory (substance)


ငွေ

Inherited from Old Burmese ငုယ် (nguy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋul ~ (d-)ŋur.


ကော်ဖီ

→ Rawang: gopi

Borrowing from Dutch koffie, also influenced by English coffee.


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

chapter (of a book); scene or part in a drama or film


မုတ်ဆိတ်

my-noun

မုတ်ဆိတ် • (muthcit)

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


သက်တံ

သက် (sak, “to descend”) + တံ (tam, “rod”)


ကမ္ဘာ

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


နန်းမြင့်

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

af

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


စာအုပ်ဆိုင်

my-noun

စာအုပ်ဆိုင် • (cauphcuing)

/sàʔoʊʔsʰàɪɴ/

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


ဟိုတယ်

Borrowed from English hotel, from French hôtel.


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”).


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).


လေယာဉ်ပျံ

desc

လေႇယိၼ်ႇပျၢၼ်ႇ

→ Shan: လေႇယိၼ်ႇပျၢၼ်ႇ (lèe yìn pjàan)

→ Shan: လေႇယိၼ်ႇပျၢၼ်ႇ (lèe yìn pjàan)

/lèjɪ̀ɴbjàɴ/

လေယာဉ် (leyany, “aircraft”) + ပျံ (pyam, “flying”)


ရောင်း

to sell (agree to transfer goods or provide services)


ပိုက်ဆံ

puikhcam (romanization)
ရွက် (classifier)

desc

→ Mon: ပဆာန်

→ Mon: ပဆာန်

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā). Cognate with Rakhine ဖေ့သာ.

ခြူးပိုက်ဆံ

old Myanmar coin bearing a ခြူး (hkru:) figure


မိုင်

→ Shan: မႅင်ႇ (mèng)


လည်ချောင်း

According to MED, from လည် (lany, “neck”) + ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “cough”), though the second component is likely better-interpreted as "throat"; see there for more.


ထောင့်

→ Shan: ထွင်ႉ (thâ̰ung)


မြေပုံ

မြေ (mre, “earth”) + ပုံ (pum, “picture”). The non-"map" senses ("mound", "sand model") invoke the etymologically-separate "pile" sense of ပုံ (pum).


စာရင်းကိုင်

/səjɪ́ɴɡàɪɴ/

စာရင်း (carang:, “accounting”) + ကိုင် (kuing, “to keep books”).


မျက်မှန်

myakhman (romanization)
လက် (classifier)

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

affix

မျက်မှန်တလက်


ဒေသိယစကား

/dèθḭja̰zəɡá/

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


အစု

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + စု (cu., “group”).


ဇနီး

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


အမိုး

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


မင်

→ Mon: မှၚ် (hmɛŋ)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak (“black, dark; ink”). Cognate with Tibetan སྨག (smag, “dark, darkness”), མོག་པ (mog pa, “dark-coloured”) and Chinese 墨 (mò, “ink”).
The Myanmar-English Dictionary’s derivation from Pali masi (“soot”) is phonologically implausible.


ဝမ်းဆွဲ

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


လက်သည်

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


အိပ်ခန်း

my-noun

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


ဒေါ်လာ

my-noun

ဒေါ်လာ • (daula)

Borrowed from English dollar, from Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler.


အက်စစ်

အက်စစ် • (akcac)


မျက်တောင်

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

affix

eyelash (hair growing on the edge of an eyelid)


မှန်ဘီလူး

မှန် (hman, “glass”) + ဘီလူး (bhilu:, “ogre”)

lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)


မျက်နှာ

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


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”).


စာတိုက်

my-noun

စာတိုက် • (catuik)

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

affix

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


တိုက်

my-noun

တိုက် • (tuik)

desc

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

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

အမေရိက

မြောက်အမေရိက (mrauk-a.meri.ka.; ), တောင်အမေရိက (taung-a.meri.ka., )

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


ဘဏ်တိုက်

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

affix

bank (branch office of a financial institution)


လက်ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင်

/ləpʰɛʔjèzàɪɴ/

လက်ဖက်ရည် (lakhpak-rany, “tea”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “shop”)


သံရုံး

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


မေးစေ့

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


ခြေဖနောင့်

/t͡ɕʰèbəna̰ʊɴ/

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


ဂျင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gyaŋ¹ (“to spin, rotate; top (toy)”), with no known cognates outside of Lolo-Burmese. Cognate with Akha [script needed] (jaw ̬jaw ̬, “to surround, go around”) (STEDT).


လက်ဖက်

→ English: lahpet

desc

→ Mon: လက်ဖက်

→ Mon: လက်ဖက်

From an element လက် (lak), theorized to be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf; tea”), + ဖက် (hpak, “leaf”).

pickled tea leaves mixed with other ingredients and served as a local delicacy, lahpet


လက်ဖက်

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ဖက် (hpak, “to embrace”).

လက်ခုပ်

unit of measure for amount contained in two cupped hands

unit of dry measure for the amount contained in a cupped hand

unit of measure for girth of trees, pillars; equivalent to what can be encircled in both arms


ဆံ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam (“hair on the head”).


မြ

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


ဘား

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

Obsolete spelling of ဖား (hpa:, “frog”).


အဖျား

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဖျား (hpya:, “extremity, tip, head”).


ဖျား

အဖျား အဖျား#Burmese


ဥယျာဉ်

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


သင်္ချာ

Borrowed from Pali saṅkhyā, from Sanskrit संख्या (saṃkhyā).


လေယာဉ်

လေ (le, “air”) + ယာဉ် (yany, “vehicle”).

လေယာဉ်မယ်

female flight attendant, airline stewardess


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.


လက်ဖက်ရည်

လက်ဖက် (lakhpak, “tea plant”) + ရည် (rany, “liquid”).


ဆရာဝန်

desc

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Jingpho: săra wun / tsi săra wun

/sʰa̰jàwʊ̀ɴ/

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


နာမ်

my-noun

နာမ် • (nam)

Borrowed from Pali nāma, from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Doublet of နာမ (nama.).


ထွန်စက်

ထွန် (htwan, “to harrow, till”) + စက် (cak, “machinery”)


ကြိယာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make, build”). Doublet of ကိရိယာ (ki.ri.ya).


အစား

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + စား (ca:, “to eat”)


ဓာတ်ဆီ

ဓာတ် (dhat, “element, mineral”) + ဆီ (hci, “oil”)


အကျဉ်းထောင်

/ʔət͡ɕɪ́ɴdàʊɴ/


ဗျည်း

Borrowed from Mon ဗျဥ်, Pali byañjana (“sign; mark; consonant”), from Sanskrit व्यञ्जन (vyañjana).


အရက်ဆိုင်

/ʔəjɛʔsʰàɪɴ/

အရက် (a.rak, “alcohol”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “store”).


ဝှေးစေ့

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


နာမဝိသေသန

/nàma̰wḭθèθəna̰/


သရ

Borrowed from Pali sara (“sound; voice; intonation; vowel”), from Sanskrit स्वर (svara).


ကျင်ချောင်း

/t͡ɕɪ̀ɴt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/


အာယုဗ္ဗေဒ

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


ကြိယာဝိသေသန

/kəɹḭjàwḭθèθəna̰/

ကြိယာ (kri.ya, “verb”) + ဝိသေသန (wi.sesa.na., “qualifier”). Compare Thai กริยาวิเศษณ์ (grì-yaa-wí-sèet), Khmer កិរិយាវិសេសន៍ (keriyaa visaeh), Lao ກະຣິຍາວິເສດ (ka ri nyā wi sēt).

cog

กริยาวิเศษณ์

កិរិយាវិសេសន៍


ယောနိ

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


ဟယ်လီကော့ပတာ

/hɛ̀lìkɔ̰pətà/


မောင်

title prefixed to the proper name of a male


လယ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *laj (“paddy field”), which is apparently only attested in Burmese and Kuki-Chin (and the latter may have borrowed from the former); compare Mizo [Term?] (lěi lèt, “to engage in wet-rice cultivation”), as well as, outside Tibeto-Burman, Thai [script needed] (râj) (STEDT).


နာမ်စား

my-noun

နာမ်စား • (namca:)


အာမေဍိတ်

အာမေဍိတ် • (amedit)


ပစ္စည်း

Borrowed from Pali paccaya (“cause, motive, requisite, means, support”).

bor+

(grammar) particle (word serving to qualify a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb or an adverb)


ဖရုံဆွဲ

/pʰəjòʊɴzwɛ́/


ဂဏန်း

→ Shan: ၵၼၢၼ်း (kǎ náan)

→ Shan: ၶၼၢၼ်း (khǎ náan)

Borrowed from Pali gaṇanā (“counting; number”); see Sanskrit गण् (gaṇ, “to count, calculate”) for more on the root.


စတုရန်း

Borrowed from Pali caturanta; compare Sanskrit चतुरन्त (caturanta, “bordered on all four sides”).


ဆေးခန်း

ဆေး (hce:, “medicine”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “room”).


ဝါကျ

Borrowed from Pali vākya (“speech; sentence”), compare Sanskrit वाक्य (vākya).


စကြာ

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra). Doublet of စက် (cak).


ကံ

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


ဒင်္ဂါး

→ Shan: တႅင်းၵႃး (téng káa)

Borrowed from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “stamped coin”); compare Sanskrit टङ्कक (ṭaṅkaka, “a stamped coin, especially of silver”).

cog

coin (minted piece of metal used as currency)


သွားတိုက်ဆေး

my-noun

သွားတိုက်ဆေး

/θwádaɪʔsʰé/


ဗော့ဒ်ကာ

ဗော့ဒ်ကာ • (baud.ka)


နွားမ

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


ဧက

(literary) one (typically used in compound words)


ချက်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-kyakᴴ (“rope, cord, navel”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kyak (“navel, umbilical cord, rope”), mainly attested in Lolo-Burmese and Qiangic; cognate with Akha [script needed] (tjaq, “rope”). The Tibeto-Burman root is possibly cognate with Old Chinese 弋 (OC *lɯɡ, “to shoot arrow (with string attached)”) and/or 繳 (OC *kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ, “string attached to arrow”), with the latter more phonologically likely; however, the reconstruction of the former makes a connection unlikely, and the latter's reconstruction is uncertain due to internal inconsistencies in the Middle Chinese readings (STEDT).


ဗုံး

→ Rawang: bòm / bùm


သန္တာ

→ Shan: ၸၼ်ႇတႃႇ (tsàn tàa)


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)


လက်ချောင်း

/lɛʔt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/

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


အဆုတ်

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


နို့သီးခေါင်း

my-noun

နို့သီးခေါင်း


ကျောက်ကပ်

ကျောက်ကပ် • (kyaukkap)

ကျောက် (kyauk, “the back”) + ကပ် (kap, “to come close, stick”), thus "(the organ) adjoining the back or waist".


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


အာရုံကြော

/ʔàjòʊɴd͡ʑɔ́/


ဖဝါး

ဖ (hpa., “extremities of the limbs”) + ဝါး (wa:, “handsbreath”); see the second component for more information in particular.

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


နံရိုး

နံ (nam, “flank”) + ရိုး (rui:, “bone”).


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)

ဦး (u:, “head”) + နှောက် (hnauk, “brain”).


မြို့နယ်

မြို့ (mrui., “city”) + နယ် (nai, “state”)


နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

my-noun

နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

/n̥əkʰáʊɴbaʊʔ/


အဘိုးကြီး

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


ရူပဗေဒ

ရူပ (rupa.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali rūpa + veda (“knowledge”).


ဓာတုဗေဒ

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


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).


တိုက်အိမ်

my-noun

တိုက်အိမ် • (tuik-im)

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


တြိဂံ

တြိ (tri.) + ဂံ (gam). Borrowed from Sanskrit त्रिकोण (trikoṇa).


လေးထောင့်

လေး (le:, “four”) + ထောင့် (htaung., “corners”)


စတုဂံ

စတု (ca.tu., “four”) + ဂံ (gam, “corner, angle”), borrowed from Pali catukkoṇa (“four corners”). Compare Khmer ចតុកោណ (caʼtokaon).


သွားဖုံး

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


အကောက်

desc

→ Shan: ဢၵွၵ်ႈ (ʼǎ kāuk)

→ Shan: ဢၵွၵ်ႈ (ʼǎ kāuk) / ၵွၵ်ႈ (kāuk)

→ Mon: အကံက်

→ Mon: အကံက်

toll collected by the house from a gaming table


စားတော်ဆက်

စား (ca:, “to eat”) + တော် (tau, “great”) + ဆက် (hcak, “to join, connect”).


ဟိုက်ဒရိုဂျင်

/haɪʔdəɹòd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/


အောက်ဆီဂျင်

/ʔaʊʔsʰìd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/


နိုက်ထရိုဂျင်

/naɪʔtʰəɹòd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/


အရင်းရှင်ဝါဒ

my-noun

အရင်းရှင်ဝါဒ

/ʔəjɪ́ɴʃɪ̀ɴwàda̰/


စားဖိုဆောင်

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


ဘယ်ရီလီယမ်

/bɛ̀ɹìlìjàɴ/

my:ဘယ်ရီလီယမ်


တာရာ

From Sanskrit तारक (tāraka), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hstar-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.


ဝိဘတ်

Borrowed from Pali vibhatti (“division, distinction, classification, detail; inflection, declension, conjugation”).

bor

(grammar) postposition; post-positional marker; word suffixed to a noun or pronoun to designate it as the subject or object, and to a verb to indicate time or mood


တောင်သူလယ်သမား

my-noun

တောင်သူလယ်သမား

/tàʊɴðùlɛ̀ðəmá/

တောင်သူ (taungsu) + လယ် (lai) + သမား (sa.ma:)


အက်တမ်

my-noun

အက်တမ် • (aktam)


ကြယ်တံခွန်

/t͡ɕɛ̀dəɡʊ̀ɴ/


ဥက္ကာပျံ

/ʔoʊʔkàbjàɴ/


ဥက္ကာ

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

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


ဗလီ

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


ဗိမာန်

desc

→ Shan: ပိၵ်ႈမၢၼ်ႇ (pīk màan)

→ Shan: ပိၵ်ႈမၢၼ်ႇ (pīk màan)

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


သန္ဓေ

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


သိမ်

my-noun

သိမ် • (sim)

→ Shan: သိမ်ႇ (sìm)

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


အချင်းဝက်

/ʔət͡ɕʰɪ́ɴwɛʔ/


သားအိမ်

သားအိမ် • (sa:im)


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


စေတီ

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


မုခ်

→ Shan: မုၵ်ႈ (mūk)

(Buddhism, architecture) gateway to a Burmese pagoda


ဗိသုကာ

desc

→ Mon: ပိက်ထကာ

→ Mon: ပိက်ထကာ


ကိုယ်

my-noun

ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Old Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”) (STEDT). Spelling is influenced by Pali kāya (“body”).
The pronoun sense is a semantic extension of the "body" sense, via "body" > "one's own body" > "oneself" (STEDT: kuiy "one's self").


ပထဝီဝင်

/pətʰəwìwɪ̀ɴ/

From Pali pathavī (“earth”) + vaṃsa (“lineage”).


ဘူမိဗေဒ

From Pali bhūmi (“ground”) + veda (“knowledge”).


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


ကိန်း

my-noun

ကိန်း • (kin:)

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


ပြာသာဒ်

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.


နှုတ်

my-noun

နှုတ် • (hnut)


အသည်းနှလုံး

/ʔəθɛ́n̥əlóʊɴ/


လည်

The "neck" sense is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m-liŋ (“neck”) (STEDT), and cognate with Old Chinese 領 (OC *reŋʔ).
The other senses are grouped by MED, and may be etymologically connected, though other theories separate them:
* The "rotate" sense is not given etymology by STEDT (lɑȵ² "rotate / spin"). Luce gives Old Chinese 輪 (OC *run, “wheel; turns, rounds”) as a cognate. While semantically solid, the phonetics deviate enough to make a formal relation to the Chinese difficult. There is also a chance, as mentioned above, that this is a derivative of the "neck" sense; for a semantic parallel in an unrelated language, compare Latin collum (“neck”).
* The "understand" sense is not given etymology by STEDT (nɑ⁵⁵ lɛ²² "understand / grasp"). Perhaps a back-formation of နားလည် (na:lany), with the original interpretation of လည် (lany) being in the sense of "rotate" > "made rounds" > "well-versed"? Okell's "Burmese (Myanmar): An Introduction to the Spoken Language, Book 1", page 198, #18 of the Common Phrases Supplement section explains it as such. Additionally bears resemblance to Old Chinese 諒 (*ɡ·raŋs, “to forgive; to believe; truth”).


ဝါစင်္ဂ

ဝါသာ (wasa) + အင်္ဂါ (angga), from Pali vācā + aṅga.


ဆက္ကဂံ

ဆက္က (hcakka., “six”) + ဂံ (gam, “corner, angle”). Borrowed from Pali chakka + Pali koṇa. Compare Khmer ឆកោណ (chɑɑchɑkaon).


ပရိယာယ်

Borrowed from Pali pariyāya, cognate with Sanskrit पर्याय (paryāya).


ညီမျှခြင်း

/ɲìm̥ja̰d͡ʑɪ́ɴ/


ထယ်

Unknown. Shared lexeme across several languages in mainland Southeast Asia, including Mon ထေဲာ, Thai ไถ (tǎi).


မြှောက်ရကိန်း

my-noun

မြှောက်ရကိန်း


မြှောက်

my-verb

မြှောက် • (hmrauk)


ထမင်းဆိုင်

/tʰəmɪ́ɴzàɪɴ/

ထမင်း (hta.mang:, “(cooked) rice”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “shop”)


ရိတ်သိမ်း

my-verb

ရိတ်သိမ်း • (ritsim:)

ရိတ် (rit, “to reap”) + သိမ်း (sim:, “to gather in”)


သံဖြူ

→ Jingpho: san pyaw


ချက်ကြိုး

/t͡ɕʰɛʔt͡ɕó/


အချင်း

Compare Chinese 直徑／直径 (zhíjìng, “diameter”).


စန်း

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


ရောဂါဗေဒ

/jɔ́ɡàbèda̰/


ဇီဝကမ္မဗေဒ

From Pali jīva + Pali kamma + Pali veda.


သကုဏဗေဒ

ornithology, the scientific study of birds


ကလျာ

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


နီလာ

Jingpho: nila

Shan: ၼီႇလႃႇ (nìi làa)

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


ခရိုမီယမ်

/kʰəɹòmìjàɴ/

my:ခရိုမီယမ်


အာရာမ

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


ပလူတိုနီယမ်

my:ပလူတိုနီယမ်


အလူမီနီယမ်

/ʔəlùmìnìjàɴ/

my:အလူမီနီယမ်


ကျပ်သား

A Burmese measurement of weight, the tical (kyattha), approximately 16.3293 grams (0.576 ounces).


ပိဿာ

→ Shan: ပႄး (páae)

Borrowed from Pali vīsa, ultimately from Sanskrit वीस (vīsa).

A Burmese measurement of weight, the viss (peittha), approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).


သတ္တဗေဒ

သတ္တ (satta.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali satta + veda (“knowledge”).


သန္ဓေဗေဒ

/θàɴdèbèda̰/

သန္ဓေ (sandhe) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali paṭisandhi + veda (“knowledge”).


နိခါတကဗေဒ

နိခါတက (ni.hkata.ka.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali nikhātaka + veda (“knowledge”).


ဝေါဟာရဗေဒ

ဝေါဟာရ (wau:hara.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali vohāra + veda (“knowledge”).


ဝရဏဗေဒ

ဝရဏ (wa.ra.na.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali varaṇa + veda (“knowledge”).


ရူပနက္ခတ္တဗေဒ

my-noun

ရူပနက္ခတ္တဗေဒ

ရူပ (rupa.) + နက္ခတ္တ (nakhkatta.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali rūpa + Pali nakkhatta + veda (“knowledge”).


သဒ္ဒဗေဒ

သဒ္ဒ (sadda.) + -ဗေဒ (-beda.). Borrowed from Pali sadda + veda (“knowledge”).


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)


ပဋိသန္ဓေ

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


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”).


အနုတ်လက္ခဏာ

/ʔən̥oʊʔlɛʔkʰənà/

From အနုတ် (a.nut, “subtraction”) + Pali lakkhaṇa (“symbol”).


အမြှောက်လက္ခဏာ

my-noun

အမြှောက်လက္ခဏာ

/ʔəm̥jaʊʔlɛʔkʰənà/

From အမြှောက် (a.hmrauk, “multiplication”) + Pali lakkhaṇa (“symbol”).

af

(arithmetic, mathematics) multiplication sign


အပေါင်းလက္ခဏာ

my-noun

အပေါင်းလက္ခဏာ

/ʔəpáʊɴlɛʔkʰənà/

From အပေါင်း (a.paung:, “addition”) + Pali lakkhaṇa (“symbol”).


အလီ

multiplication table
multiplication table

(mathematics, arithmetic) multiplication table


ဆီးအောင့်ရောဂါ

/sʰíʔa̰ʊɴjɔ́ɡà/

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


အရေပြား

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


အဖျားဖြတ်ဆေး

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


ဂေါ်မိတ်

my-noun

ဂေါ်မိတ် • (gaumit)


ဥဿဖရား

/ʔoʊʔθəpʰəjá/


လူပျို

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


သဒ္ဒါဆယ်ပါး

/ðədàsʰɛ̀bá/

သဒ္ဒါ (sadda, “sounds”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + ပါး (pa:)

(linguistics) classification of words into ten categories, according to their articulation in Burmese scholarship


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.


အတွင်းတာရာ

/ʔətwɪ́ɴtàjà/

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

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


ဩသဓ

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


ဗြိစ္ဆာ

From Sanskrit वृश्चिक (vṛścika, “scorpion”).

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


ခေါက်ဆွဲဆိုင်

/kʰaʊʔsʰwɛ́zàɪɴ/

ခေါက်ဆွဲ (hkaukhcwai:, “noodle”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “shop”)


လမ်းဘေးဆိုင်

လမ်း (lam:, “street”) + ဘေး (bhe:, “side”) + ဆိုင် (hcuing, “shop”)


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:)


အတိုး

desc

→ Shan: ဢတူဝ်း (ʼǎ tó)

→ Shan: ဢတူဝ်း (ʼǎ tó)

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + တိုး (tui:, “to advance”).


ကျောက်နီ

my-noun

ကျောက်နီ • (kyaukni)

ကျောက် (kyauk, “stone”) + နီ (ni, “red”)


မသာ

→ Shan: မသႃႇ (mǎ sàa)

→ Shan: မႃႇသႃႇ (màa sàa)


ဂံ

(geometry) angle, corner (used in compounds only)


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:)


အနန္တ

Learned borrowing from Pali ananta. Cognate with Shan ဢၼၼ်ႇတႃႉ (ʼǎ nàn tâ̰a).

cog

Shan ဢၼၼ်ႇတႃႉ (ʼǎ nàn tâ̰a)


သုဒ္ဒကိန်း

/θoʊʔda̰kéɪɴ/

သုဒ္ဒ (sudda.) + ကိန်း (kin:), the first element from Pali sudda, and the second element from Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra).


သုဒ္ဒကြိယာ

/θoʊʔda̰kəɹḭjà/

သုဒ္ဒ (sudda.) + ကြိယာ (kri.ya), the first element from Pali sudda, and the second element from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā).


ဆင်ဝင်

→ Shan: သၢင်ႇဝၢင်ႇ (sàang wàang)


ပစ္စယာ

→ Shan: ပဵတ်ႈၸယႃႇ (pāet tsǎ yàa)

(Buddhism, architecture) terrace (of a pagoda)


ဗဟုဝုစ်ကိန်း

/bəhṵ woʊʔkéɪɴ/

ဗဟုဝုစ် (ba.hu.wuc, “plural”) + ကိန်း (kin:, “numeral”), from Pali bahu + Pali vacana + Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra).


ဧကဝုစ်ကိန်း

/ʔèɡə woʊʔkéɪɴ/

ဧကဝုစ် (eka.wuc, “singular”) + ကိန်း (kin:, “numeral”). Borrowed from Pali ekavacana or Sanskrit एकवचन (ekavacana) + Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra).


ကင်ပွန်း

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


ပိုတက်ဆီယမ်

/pòtɛʔsʰìjàɴ/

my:ပိုတက်ဆီယမ်


လယ်သမား

လယ် (lai, “field”) + သမား (sa.ma:, “worker”).


ဖျောက်ဆိပ်

my:ဖျောက်ဆိပ်


မျိုးစိတ်

my-noun

မျိုးစိတ် • (myui:cit)


ပြဿဒါး

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


ပိဋကတ်တိုက်

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

af

(historical) royal library or repository housing Buddhist scriptures


ကပ်ရောဂါ

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


ရောဂန္တရကပ်

/jɔ́ɡàɴtəɹa̰kaʔ/

From Pali roga + Pali antara + Pali kappa.


နတ်သုဓာ

နတ် (nat, “spirit”) + သုဓာ (su.dha, “ambrosia”)


စိတ္တဇရောဂါ

/seɪʔdəza̰jɔ́ɡà/

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


သားအိမ်ခေါင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်ခေါင်း • (sa:imhkaung:)

/θəʔèɪɴɡáʊɴ/

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


သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း • (sa:imlam:kraung:)

/θəʔèɪɴláɴd͡ʑáʊɴ/

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


ကလျာဏီ

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


ဉာဏ်တော်

my-noun

ဉာဏ်တော် • (nyantau)

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


မီးယပ်ပညာ

/míjaʔpjɪ̀ɴɲà/

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


တီး

(slang) tea (typically in reference to milk tea)


လေဖိအား

လေဖိအားနည်းရပ်ဝန်း


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.


မြေရိုင်း

မြေ (mre, “soil”) + ရိုင်း (ruing:, “intact”)


မြေနုကျွန်းပေါ်

my-noun

မြေနုကျွန်းပေါ်

/mjènṵt͡ɕʊ́ɴbɔ̀/


မျက်လုံး

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

prefix

Holonym: မျက်စိ (myakci.)


ထော်လာဂျီ

/tʰɔ̀làd͡ʑì/

Borrowed from Mandarin 拖拉機／拖拉机 (tuōlājī).

zh-l

拖拉機／拖拉机 (tuōlājī)


ဟော်တယ်

my-noun

ဟော်တယ် • (hautai)

Borrowed from English hotel, from French hôtel.


ရှမ်ပိန်

ရှမ်ပိန် • (hrampin)


အဋ္ဌဂံ

အဋ္ဌ (athta.) + ဂံ (gam). From Pali အဋ္ဌ (aṭṭha, “eight”) + ကောဏ (kau:na., “angle”). Cognate with Khmer អដ្ឋកោន (ʼatthaʼkaon).


ပူး

(astronomy, astrology) to be in conjunction


ဂျက်လေယာဉ်

/d͡ʑɛʔlèjɪ̀ɴ/

Partial calque of English jet plane, from jet + လေယာဉ် (leyany).


အသားဓာတ်

အသား (a.sa:, “meat”) + ဓာတ် (dhat, “essence”)


အဆီဓာတ်

အဆီ (a.hci, “fat”) + ဓာတ် (dhat, “essence”)


ရေခဲတောင်

my:ရေခဲတောင်


ရှယ်ယာ

(finance) share (a financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability)


ကွန်မြူနစ်

/kʊ̀ɴmjùnɪʔ/


သိဟ်

my-noun

သိဟ် • (sih)


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


ဆင်တာရာ

(astrology, astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)


ချိန်တာရာ

/t͡ɕʰèɪɴtàjà/

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


ကိတ်ဂြိုဟ်

head

ကိတ်ဂြိုဟ် • (kitgruih)

my-proper noun

ကိတ်ဂြိုဟ် • (kitgruih)

ကိတ် ကိတ်#Burmese


ကျီးတာရာ

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

af

(astrology, astronomy) Perseus (constellation)


တံငါတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Hercules (constellation)


ဗျိုင်းတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Cassiopeia (constellation)


ဆံကျင်တာရာ

/sʰàɴt͡ɕɪ̀ɴtàjà/

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

(astrology, astronomy) Coma Berenices (constellation)


မြင်းတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Cepheus (constellation)


ဟင်္သာတာရာ

/hɪ̀ɴθàtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) Auriga (constellation)


ရှင်ဖ

မယ်တော် မယ်တော်#Burmese

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


ရာဟု

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit राहु (rāhu)

lbor

ascending node of the moon (traditionally considered a planet in Burmese astrology)


ပုစွန်တာရာ

/bəzʊ̀ɴtàjà/

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

af

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


နက္ခတ်မျှော်စင်

/nɛʔkʰaʔm̥jɔ̀zɪ̀ɴ/

နက္ခတ် (nakhkat, “star”) + မျှော်စင် (hmyaucang, “tower”)


နက္ခတ်တာရာပြခန်း

နက္ခတ် (nakhkat, “star”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”) + ပြခန်း (pra.hkan:, “exhibition hall”)


လှိုင်းတို

လှိုင်း (hluing:, “wave”) + တို (tui, “short”).


အက္ခရာသင်္ချာ

head

အက္ခရာသင်္ချာ

/ʔɛʔkʰa̰jàθɪ̀ɴt͡ɕʰà/

အက္ခရာ (akhka.ra, “letter of the alphabet”) + သင်္ချာ (sanghkya, “mathematics”).


ဂျီဩမေတြီ

/d͡ʑìʔɔ́mètɹì/


လက်ဖက်စို

From လက်ဖက် (lakhpak, “tea”) + စို (cui, “wet”)


ရဝေတိုင်

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

com

ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင် ကုဗ္ဘီးတိုင်#Burmese

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


ဥရူတိုင်

ကြငှန်းတိုင် ကြငှန်းတိုင်#Burmese

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


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)


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)


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)


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


ဗေဒင်ဆရာ

/bèdɪ̀ɴsʰəjà/

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


မျိုးပေါင်း

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


မျိုးပေါင်းစု

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


မျိုးစဉ်

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


မိန်

my-noun

မိန် • (min)

(astrology) Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac


မိဿ

(astrology) Aries, the first sign of the zodiac


ပြိဿ

(astrology) Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac


မကရ

(astrology) Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac


ရာသီရုပ်

ရာသီရုပ် • (rasirup)

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


ကုံ

(astrology) Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac


ကရကဋ်

(astrology) Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac


ယူရေနတ်

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese


နက်ပကျွန်း

/nɛʔpət͡ɕʊ́ɴ/

ဂြိုဟ် ဂြိုဟ်#Burmese

my:နက်ပကျွန်း


လက်ညှိုး

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


မျိုးရင်း

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


လက်မ

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


လက်သူကြွယ်

/lɛʔðù+'t͡ɕwɛ̀/

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


လက်ခလယ်

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


ပဉ္စဂံ

/pjɪ̀ɴsəɡàɴ/

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) + ဂံ (gam, “angle”). Borrowed from Sanskrit पञ्चकोण (pañcakoṇa). Compare Khmer បញ្ចកោណ (pañcaʼkaon).


ဒသဂံ

ဒသ (da.sa., “ten”) + ဂံ (gam, “angles”), borrowed from Pali dasa + Pali koṇa.


နဝဂံ

နဝ (na.wa., “nine”) + ဂံ (gam, “angles”), borrowed from Pali chakka + Pali koṇa.


ဆဋ္ဌဂံ

/sʰaʔtʰəɡàɴ/

ဆဋ္ဌ (hcathta., “six”) + ဂံ (gam, “angle”). Borrowed from Pali chaṭṭha + Pali koṇa.


သတ္တဂံ

သတ္တ (satta., “seven”) + ဂံ (gam, “corner, angle”), borrowed from Pali satta + Pali koṇa.


အစားလက္ခဏာ

/ʔəsálɛʔkʰənà/

From အစား (a.ca:, “division”) + Pali lakkhaṇa (“symbol”).


မီးဖွားခွင့်

/mípʰwákʰwɪ̰ɴ/

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


စိတ်ကျန်းမာရေး

my-noun

စိတ်ကျန်းမာရေး • (citkyan:mare:)

/seɪʔt͡ɕáɴmàjé/

စိတ် (cit, “mind”) + ကျန်းမာရေး (kyan:mare:, “health”)


အီလက်ထရွန်

/ʔìlɛʔtʰəɹʊ̀ɴ/

my:အီလက်ထရွန်


ထုံးကျောက်

/tʰóʊɴd͡ʑaʊʔ/


အဝဂ်

(phonetics) a group of miscellaneous consonants not belonging to any of the groups that are arranged in the Burmese alphabet according to their place of articulation. They are ယ (ya.), ရ (ra.), လ (la.), ဝ (wa.), သ (sa.), ဟ (ha.), ဠ (la.), and အ (a.).


စင်တီမီတာ

/sɪ̀ɴtìmìtà/


ဆံခြည်

a unit of measure equal to 79.375 µm or 0.003125 inch


ဟတ်ဇ်

my-noun

ဟတ်ဇ် • (hatj)


အဏုမြူလက်နက်

/ʔənṵmjùlɛʔnɛʔ/

my:အဏုမြူ လက်နက်


ခွဲစိတ်ကုပညာ

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


ကွန်မြူနစ်ဝါဒ

From ကွန်မြူနစ် (kwanmrunac) + ဝါဒ (wada.).


အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ

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


ဆိုရှယ်လစ်ဝါဒ

From ဆိုရှယ်လစ် (hcuihrailac) + ဝါဒ (wada.).


သွေးကင်ဆာ

/θwékɪ̀ɴsʰà/

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


အိုင်းယွန်း

my-noun

အိုင်းယွန်း • (uing:ywan:)


အပိုင်းဂဏန်း

/ʔəpáɪɴ ɡənáɴ/


ဧကဝုစ်

Borrowed from Pali ekavacana or Pali eka + Pali vacana. Compare Khmer ឯកវចនៈ (ʼaek vaccaʼnaʼ).


ဗဟုဝုစ်

Borrowed from Pali bahuvacana or Pali bahu + Pali vacana. Compare Khmer ពហុវចនៈ (pĕəʼhuʼ vaccaʼnaʼ).


ကင်ပွန်းချဉ်

/kɪ̀ɴbʊ́ɴd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/

/kɪ̀ɴmʊ́ɴd͡ʑɪ̀ɴ/

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


ရလဒ်

ရ (ra., “to get, obtain”) + လဒ် (lad, “result”).


ဝတ်ရည်

* ဝတ် (wat, “small particle”) + ရည် (rany, “liquid”)


ပန်းဝတ်ရည်

* ပန်း (pan:, “flower”) + ဝတ်ရည် (watrany, “nectar”)


အာကာသစခန်း

/ʔàkàθa̰səkʰáɴ/

my:အာကာသစခန်း


မဟာဘုတ်

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


ဒူဝါ

Borrowed from Jingpho duwa (“chieftain”).

bor+

ဒူဝါလရှီးလ
duwala.hri:la.
Duwa Lashi La

(honorific) a title used by Kachin chieftains


ကင်းထောက်လေယာဉ်

my-noun

ကင်းထောက်လေယာဉ် • (kang:htaukleyany) (classifier စင်း)

htaukleyany (romanization)
စင်း (classifier)

/kɪ́ɴdaʊʔlèjɪ̀ɴ/

From ကင်း (kang:) + ထောက် (htauk) + လေယာဉ် (leyany).


အယ်လ်ကိုဟော

my-noun

အယ်လ်ကိုဟော • (ailkuihau:)

my:အယ်လ်ကိုဟော


အနုတ်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + နုတ် (nut, “to pull out, subtract”).


ဒန်

Borrowed from Sanskrit ताम्र (tāmra, “copper”).


ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွခြင်း

/ŋwèt͡ɕépʰáʊɴpwa̰d͡ʑɪ́ɴ/

ငွေကြေး (ngwe-kre:) + ဖောင်းပွ (hpaung:pwa.) + ခြင်း (hkrang:).

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my:ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွခြင်း

en-ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွခြင်း-my-noun-bXMaXtFF


အတွက်

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + တွက် (twak, “to calculate, reckon”).


လွန်း

(astrology) term for a particular celestial abode