မြင်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-m-raŋ ~ s-raŋ (“horse”).

inh

(chess) knight (both in Western chess and in Burmese chess, also known as sittuyin)


ခွေး

Inherited from Old Burmese ခုယ်း (khuy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-kʷəj-n (“dog”). Compare Tibetan ཁྱི (khyi, “idem”), Old Chinese 犬 (OC *kʰʷeːnʔ, “idem”) (STEDT).

canids: ခွေးမျိုးရင်း: ခွေး · ခွေးအ · မြေခွေး · ဝံပုလွေ · ဝံပုလွေငယ် [edit]


တူ

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


နွား

my-noun

နွား • (nwa:) (classifier ကောင် or ရှဉ်း)

nwa: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)
ရှဉ်း (classifier)

Inherited from Old Burmese နေား (no:), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋwa (“cattle”).

cleat supporting the wall plate of a frame house


ဝက်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak (“pig”) (STEDT)


မြွေ

Inherited from Old Burmese မြုယ် (mruy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl (“snake”). Cognate with Tibetan སྦྲུལ (sbrul) and Mandarin 虺 (huǐ).


နဂါး

na.ga: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၼၵႃး (nǎ káa)

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


ကန်

→ Shan: ၵၼ်ႇ (kàn)

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


ကျား

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လာ (kla), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-la (“tiger”), ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *klaʔ (“idem”).

ကျားလိုက်တုတ်ခုတ်

being forced to respond to a situation without due preparation

ကျားမြီးဆွဲမိ

to be in a fix, be committed without a chance of retraction


ကြက်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-rak (“chicken, fowl”), which appears to be onomatopoeic (compare English cluck). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (ya, “idem”).

inh

cɛʔhmɑ ə`yo luhmɑ ə`myo
conventional orthography:
ကြက်မှာ အရိုး လူမှာ အမျိုး။
krakhma a.rui: luhma a.myui:||

1962, Hla Pe, Burmese Proverbs, London: John Murray, pp. 18 and 90

With fowls, the pedigree; with men, breeding.


ကြွက်

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


ဆိတ်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *V-ci:tᴸ (“goat, sheep”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-tsit (“goat, beard, goatee, yak-hair”). Cognate with Lashi choyt, Nuosu ꍶ (chyt, “goat”), Japhug tsʰɤt (“goat”), Naxi ceel (“goat”), Drung vchit (“goat”) (STEDT).


ယုန်

yun (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)
တုတ် (classifier)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-jəw-n ~ bwəj; cognate with Tibetan ཡོས (yos).


စန်း

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


အတွင်းတာရာ

/ʔətwɪ́ɴtàjà/

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

af

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


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.


ဗြိစ္ဆာ

From Sanskrit वृश्चिक (vṛścika, “scorpion”).

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


ပြဿဒါး

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


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.


ပူး

(astronomy, astrology) to be in conjunction


သိဟ်

သိဟ် • (sih)


ကျီးတာရာ

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

af

(astrology, astronomy) Perseus (constellation)


ချိန်တာရာ

/t͡ɕʰèɪɴtàjà/

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


ဆံကျင်တာရာ

/sʰàɴt͡ɕɪ̀ɴtàjà/

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

(astrology, astronomy) Coma Berenices (constellation)


ဆင်တာရာ

(astrology, astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)


တံငါတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Hercules (constellation)


ပုစွန်တာရာ

/bəzʊ̀ɴtàjà/

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

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


ဗျိုင်းတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Cassiopeia (constellation)


ဟင်္သာတာရာ

/hɪ̀ɴθàtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) Auriga (constellation)


မြင်းတာရာ

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

(astrology, astronomy) Cepheus (constellation)


ဗေဒင်ဆရာ

/bèdɪ̀ɴsʰəjà/

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


ရာသီရုပ်

my-noun

ရာသီရုပ် • (rasirup)

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


မိဿ

(astrology) Aries, the first sign of the zodiac


ပြိဿ

(astrology) Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac


ကရကဋ်

(astrology) Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac


ကုံ

(astrology) Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac


မိန်

my-noun

မိန် • (min)

(astrology) Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac


မကရ

(astrology) Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac


မဟာဘုတ်

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


လွန်း

(astrology) term for a particular celestial abode