"ကျော" meaning in Burmese

See ကျော in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /t͡ɕɔ́/ Forms: kyau: [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-adj}} ကျော • (kyau:)
  1. immaculate, pure, clean, smooth Derived forms: ကျောက်ကျော (kyaukkyau:), နက်ကျော (nakkyau:), မည်းကျော (english: many:kyau:)
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-adj-iIcSljLb Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 26 8 4 16 19 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

IPA: /t͡ɕɔ́/ Forms: kyau: [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”); cognate with Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”) (STEDT). Etymology templates: {{inh|my|tbq-lob-pro|*gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ|t=waist}} Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”), {{inh|my|tbq-pro|*gju-k ~ *dzju-k|t=waist}} Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”), {{cog|lhu|cɔ̀ʔ|t=waist, small of back}} Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”) Head templates: {{my-noun}} ကျော • (kyau:)
  1. back, behind, rear
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-noun-XuBMb86z
  2. back (rear of the body)
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-noun-bgafmpVw
  3. (of palm-leaf manuscripts or books) reverse page, verso Synonyms: ဝမ်း
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-noun-wizS-Ag9 Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Body parts Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 26 8 4 16 19 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 6 5 55 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 6 5 64 14 7 Disambiguation of Body parts: 7 6 12 60 8 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: ကျောကုန်း (kyau:kun:), ကျောခင်း (kyau:hkang:), ကျောချင်းကပ် (kyau:hkyang:kap), ကျောချမ်း (kyau:hkyam:), ကျောချမ်းဖွယ် (kyau:hkyam:hpwai), ကျောခိုင်း (kyau:hkuing:), ကျောခိုင်းနံစပ် (kyau:hkuing:namcap), ကျောထောက်နောက်ခံ (kyau:htauknaukhkam), ကျောပိုးအိတ် (kyau:pui:it), ကျောပူခေါင်းပူ (kyau:puhkaung:pu), ကျောပေး (kyau:pe:), ကျောဘက် (kyau:bhak), ကျောမွဲ (kyau:mwai:), ကျောရိုး (kyau:rui:), ကျောရိုးမရှိသူ (kyau:rui:ma.hri.su), ကျောရိုးမဲ့သတ္တဝါ (kyau:rui:mai.satta.wa), ကျောရိုးရှိသတ္တဝါ (kyau:rui:hri.satta.wa), ကျောသားရင်သားခွဲ (kyau:sa:rangsa:hkwai:), နောက်ကျော (naukkyau:), မာကျော (ma-kyau:), မာကျောကျော (ma-kyau:kyau:), မာရေကျောရေ (mare-kyau:re)

Verb

IPA: /t͡ɕɔ́/ Forms: kyau: [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-verb}} ကျော • (kyau:)
  1. to do better than others, excel, outdo someone, surpass, have the edge on someone
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-verb-VOck5ufd Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 26 8 4 16 19 27
  2. to say, act, do something to get unfair advantage
    Sense id: en-ကျော-my-verb-ceplQHTF Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 26 8 4 16 19 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:kun:",
      "word": "ကျောကုန်း"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkang:",
      "word": "ကျောခင်း"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkyang:kap",
      "word": "ကျောချင်းကပ်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkyam:",
      "word": "ကျောချမ်း"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkyam:hpwai",
      "word": "ကျောချမ်းဖွယ်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkuing:",
      "word": "ကျောခိုင်း"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:hkuing:namcap",
      "word": "ကျောခိုင်းနံစပ်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:htauknaukhkam",
      "word": "ကျောထောက်နောက်ခံ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:pui:it",
      "word": "ကျောပိုးအိတ်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:puhkaung:pu",
      "word": "ကျောပူခေါင်းပူ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:pe:",
      "word": "ကျောပေး"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:bhak",
      "word": "ကျောဘက်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:mwai:",
      "word": "ကျောမွဲ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:rui:",
      "word": "ကျောရိုး"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:rui:ma.hri.su",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးမရှိသူ"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:rui:mai.satta.wa",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးမဲ့သတ္တဝါ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:rui:hri.satta.wa",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးရှိသတ္တဝါ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kyau:sa:rangsa:hkwai:",
      "word": "ကျောသားရင်သားခွဲ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "naukkyau:",
      "word": "နောက်ကျော"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "ma-kyau:",
      "word": "မာကျော"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "ma-kyau:kyau:",
      "word": "မာကျောကျော"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "mare-kyau:re",
      "word": "မာရေကျောရေ"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ",
        "t": "waist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-pro",
        "3": "*gju-k ~ *dzju-k",
        "t": "waist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lhu",
        "2": "cɔ̀ʔ",
        "t": "waist, small of back"
      },
      "expansion": "Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”); cognate with Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”) (STEDT).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "back, behind, rear"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-noun-XuBMb86z",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "back (rear of the body)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-noun-bgafmpVw",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear#English"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 8 4 16 19 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 6 5 55 19 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 6 5 64 14 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 6 12 60 8 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "my",
          "name": "Body parts",
          "orig": "my:Body parts",
          "parents": [
            "Anatomy"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "reverse page, verso"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-noun-wizS-Ag9",
      "links": [
        [
          "palm-leaf",
          "palm-leaf"
        ],
        [
          "manuscript",
          "manuscript"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "reverse",
          "reverse"
        ],
        [
          "page",
          "page"
        ],
        [
          "verso",
          "verso"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of palm-leaf manuscripts or books) reverse page, verso"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of palm-leaf manuscripts or books"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ဝမ်း"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 8 4 16 19 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do better than others, excel, outdo someone, surpass, have the edge on someone"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-verb-VOck5ufd",
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ],
        [
          "others",
          "others"
        ],
        [
          "excel",
          "excel"
        ],
        [
          "outdo",
          "outdo"
        ],
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "have",
          "have"
        ],
        [
          "edge",
          "edge"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 8 4 16 19 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to say, act, do something to get unfair advantage"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-verb-ceplQHTF",
      "links": [
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "get",
          "get"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 8 4 16 19 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "kyaukkyau:",
          "word": "ကျောက်ကျော"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nakkyau:",
          "word": "နက်ကျော"
        },
        {
          "english": "many:kyau:",
          "word": "မည်းကျော"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "immaculate, pure, clean, smooth"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကျော-my-adj-iIcSljLb",
      "links": [
        [
          "immaculate",
          "immaculate"
        ],
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese adjectives",
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese nouns",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Tibeto-Burman",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Body parts"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kyau:kun:",
      "word": "ကျောကုန်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkang:",
      "word": "ကျောခင်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkyang:kap",
      "word": "ကျောချင်းကပ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkyam:",
      "word": "ကျောချမ်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkyam:hpwai",
      "word": "ကျောချမ်းဖွယ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkuing:",
      "word": "ကျောခိုင်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:hkuing:namcap",
      "word": "ကျောခိုင်းနံစပ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:htauknaukhkam",
      "word": "ကျောထောက်နောက်ခံ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:pui:it",
      "word": "ကျောပိုးအိတ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:puhkaung:pu",
      "word": "ကျောပူခေါင်းပူ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:pe:",
      "word": "ကျောပေး"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:bhak",
      "word": "ကျောဘက်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:mwai:",
      "word": "ကျောမွဲ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:rui:",
      "word": "ကျောရိုး"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:rui:ma.hri.su",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးမရှိသူ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:rui:mai.satta.wa",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးမဲ့သတ္တဝါ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:rui:hri.satta.wa",
      "word": "ကျောရိုးရှိသတ္တဝါ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyau:sa:rangsa:hkwai:",
      "word": "ကျောသားရင်သားခွဲ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "naukkyau:",
      "word": "နောက်ကျော"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ma-kyau:",
      "word": "မာကျော"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ma-kyau:kyau:",
      "word": "မာကျောကျော"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mare-kyau:re",
      "word": "မာရေကျောရေ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ",
        "t": "waist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-pro",
        "3": "*gju-k ~ *dzju-k",
        "t": "waist"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lhu",
        "2": "cɔ̀ʔ",
        "t": "waist, small of back"
      },
      "expansion": "Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *gjukᴸ ~ džukᴸ (“waist”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gju-k ~ *dzju-k (“waist”); cognate with Lahu cɔ̀ʔ (“waist, small of back”) (STEDT).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "back, behind, rear"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "behind",
          "behind"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "back (rear of the body)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ],
        [
          "rear",
          "rear#English"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "reverse page, verso"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "palm-leaf",
          "palm-leaf"
        ],
        [
          "manuscript",
          "manuscript"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "reverse",
          "reverse"
        ],
        [
          "page",
          "page"
        ],
        [
          "verso",
          "verso"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of palm-leaf manuscripts or books) reverse page, verso"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of palm-leaf manuscripts or books"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ဝမ်း"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese adjectives",
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Body parts"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to do better than others, excel, outdo someone, surpass, have the edge on someone"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ],
        [
          "others",
          "others"
        ],
        [
          "excel",
          "excel"
        ],
        [
          "outdo",
          "outdo"
        ],
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ],
        [
          "have",
          "have"
        ],
        [
          "edge",
          "edge"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to say, act, do something to get unfair advantage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "get",
          "get"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese adjectives",
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Body parts"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kyaukkyau:",
      "word": "ကျောက်ကျော"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nakkyau:",
      "word": "နက်ကျော"
    },
    {
      "english": "many:kyau:",
      "word": "မည်းကျော"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kyau:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကျော • (kyau:)",
      "name": "my-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "immaculate, pure, clean, smooth"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "immaculate",
          "immaculate"
        ],
        [
          "pure",
          "pure"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕɔ́/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကျော"
}

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