"င" meaning in Burmese

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Character

IPA: /ŋa̰/ Forms: nga. [romanization]
Head templates: {{head|my|letter|head=|sort=|tr=}} င • (nga.), {{my-letter}} င • (nga.)
  1. Nga, the fifth letter of the Burmese alphabet Tags: letter
    Sense id: en-င-my-character-xbWNxJQG Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Burmese particles, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 72 16 4 8 Disambiguation of Burmese particles: 69 18 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 61 12 10 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 77 8 6 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ŋa̰/ Forms: nga. [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-noun}} င • (nga.)
  1. name of the letter င, the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet Tags: alt-of, letter, name Alternative form of: (extra: the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet) Derived forms: ငရဲငအုံ (nga.rai:nga.um), နင်ပဲငဆ (nangpai:nga.hca.)
    Sense id: en-င-my-noun-yKJGNn18 Categories (other): Letter names Disambiguation of Letter names: 21 42 26 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Particle

IPA: /ŋa̰/ Forms: nga. [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-particle}} င • (nga.)
  1. (honorific, derogatory) particle prefixed to a man's name (now considered to be derogatory) Tags: derogatory, honorific
    Sense id: en-င-my-particle-yDDg3pcV Derived forms: ငချွတ် (nga.hkywat), ငစဉ်းလဲ (nga.cany:lai:), ငတိ (nga.ti.), ငတေ (nga.te), ငနဲ (nga.nai:), ငပုပ်ဖမ်း (nga.puphpam:), ငမှန်ကန်သိုက် (nga.hmankansuik), ငမိုက်သား (nga.muiksa:), ငှက်ငနွား (hngaknga.nwa:), ရှဉ့်ငပေါ (hrany.nga.pau:), လငပုပ်ဖမ်း (la.nga.puphpam:)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /ŋa̰/ Forms: nga. [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-verb}} င • (nga.)
  1. to be of sufficient quantity to go round Derived forms: ကိုယ်စီကိုယ်င (kuiycikuiynga.), ကုံင (kumnga.), စေ့င (ce.nga.), လောက်င (lauknga.), အစေ့အင (a.ce.a.nga.)
    Sense id: en-င-my-verb-x5ueyaUv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "letter",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-letter"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "72 16 4 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 18 11 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 12 10 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 8 6 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nga, the fifth letter of the Burmese alphabet"
      ],
      "id": "en-င-my-character-xbWNxJQG",
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet",
          "word": "င"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 42 26 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "my",
          "name": "Letter names",
          "orig": "my:Letter names",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "nga.rai:nga.um",
          "word": "ငရဲငအုံ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nangpai:nga.hca.",
          "word": "နင်ပဲငဆ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the letter င, the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet"
      ],
      "id": "en-င-my-noun-yKJGNn18",
      "links": [
        [
          "င",
          "င#Burmese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "kuiycikuiynga.",
          "word": "ကိုယ်စီကိုယ်င"
        },
        {
          "roman": "kumnga.",
          "word": "ကုံင"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ce.nga.",
          "word": "စေ့င"
        },
        {
          "roman": "lauknga.",
          "word": "လောက်င"
        },
        {
          "roman": "a.ce.a.nga.",
          "word": "အစေ့အင"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be of sufficient quantity to go round"
      ],
      "id": "en-င-my-verb-x5ueyaUv",
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "quantity",
          "quantity"
        ],
        [
          "go round",
          "go round"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "nga.hkywat",
          "word": "ငချွတ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.cany:lai:",
          "word": "ငစဉ်းလဲ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.ti.",
          "word": "ငတိ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.te",
          "word": "ငတေ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.nai:",
          "word": "ငနဲ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.puphpam:",
          "word": "ငပုပ်ဖမ်း"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.hmankansuik",
          "word": "ငမှန်ကန်သိုက်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nga.muiksa:",
          "word": "ငမိုက်သား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hngaknga.nwa:",
          "word": "ငှက်ငနွား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hrany.nga.pau:",
          "word": "ရှဉ့်ငပေါ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "la.nga.puphpam:",
          "word": "လငပုပ်ဖမ်း"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "particle prefixed to a man's name (now considered to be derogatory)"
      ],
      "id": "en-င-my-particle-yDDg3pcV",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(honorific, derogatory) particle prefixed to a man's name (now considered to be derogatory)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "honorific"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese letters",
    "Burmese nouns",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Letter names"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "letter",
        "head": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": ""
      },
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-letter"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Nga, the fifth letter of the Burmese alphabet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese letters",
    "Burmese nouns",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Letter names"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "nga.rai:nga.um",
      "word": "ငရဲငအုံ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nangpai:nga.hca.",
      "word": "နင်ပဲငဆ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet",
          "word": "င"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the letter င, the fifth letter of the Myanmar alphabet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "င",
          "င#Burmese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Letter names"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kuiycikuiynga.",
      "word": "ကိုယ်စီကိုယ်င"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kumnga.",
      "word": "ကုံင"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ce.nga.",
      "word": "စေ့င"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lauknga.",
      "word": "လောက်င"
    },
    {
      "roman": "a.ce.a.nga.",
      "word": "အစေ့အင"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to be of sufficient quantity to go round"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be",
          "be"
        ],
        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "quantity",
          "quantity"
        ],
        [
          "go round",
          "go round"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Letter names"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "nga.hkywat",
      "word": "ငချွတ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.cany:lai:",
      "word": "ငစဉ်းလဲ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.ti.",
      "word": "ငတိ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.te",
      "word": "ငတေ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.nai:",
      "word": "ငနဲ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.puphpam:",
      "word": "ငပုပ်ဖမ်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.hmankansuik",
      "word": "ငမှန်ကန်သိုက်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nga.muiksa:",
      "word": "ငမိုက်သား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hngaknga.nwa:",
      "word": "ငှက်ငနွား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hrany.nga.pau:",
      "word": "ရှဉ့်ငပေါ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "la.nga.puphpam:",
      "word": "လငပုပ်ဖမ်း"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nga.",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "င • (nga.)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Burmese derogatory terms",
        "Burmese honorific terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "particle prefixed to a man's name (now considered to be derogatory)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(honorific, derogatory) particle prefixed to a man's name (now considered to be derogatory)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "honorific"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ŋa̰/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "င"
}

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