"တက္ကသိုလ်" meaning in Burmese

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Noun

IPA: /tɛʔkəθò/ Forms: takka.suil [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā, in reference to the historical center of learning at Taxila, located in modern-day Pakistan. Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|my|pi|Takkasilā}} Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā, {{doublet|my|တက္ကသီလာ|t1=Taxila}} Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”) Head templates: {{my-noun}} တက္ကသိုလ် • (takka.suil)
  1. university; institute of higher learning Synonyms: ယူနီဘာစီတီ
    Sense id: en-တက္ကသိုလ်-my-noun-c1-q-u-C Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Education Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 64 36 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 33 Disambiguation of Education: 82 18
  2. (historical) In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-တက္ကသိုလ်-my-noun-Wl1ShFLa Categories (other): History of Myanmar Disambiguation of History of Myanmar: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: စစ်တက္ကသိုလ် (cactakka.suil)
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "cactakka.suil",
      "word": "စစ်တက္ကသိုလ်"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Pa'o Karen",
      "lang_code": "blk",
      "word": "တက္ကသိုလ်ႏ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Shan",
      "lang_code": "shn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tāk kǎ sò",
      "word": "တၵ်ႈၵသူဝ်ႇ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Shan",
      "lang_code": "shn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tâ̰k kǎ sò",
      "word": "တၵ်ႉၵသူဝ်ႇ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "pi",
        "3": "Takkasilā"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "တက္ကသီလာ",
        "t1": "Taxila"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”)",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā, in reference to the historical center of learning at Taxila, located in modern-day Pakistan. Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takka.suil",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "တက္ကသိုလ် • (takka.suil)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 36",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "my",
          "name": "Education",
          "orig": "my:Education",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "university; institute of higher learning"
      ],
      "id": "en-တက္ကသိုလ်-my-noun-c1-q-u-C",
      "links": [
        [
          "university",
          "university#English"
        ],
        [
          "institute",
          "institute"
        ],
        [
          "higher",
          "higher"
        ],
        [
          "learning",
          "learning"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ယူနီဘာစီတီ"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "my",
          "name": "History of Myanmar",
          "orig": "my:History of Myanmar",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names."
      ],
      "id": "en-တက္ကသိုလ်-my-noun-Wl1ShFLa",
      "links": [
        [
          "colonial",
          "colonial"
        ],
        [
          "title",
          "title"
        ],
        [
          "pen names",
          "pen names#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛʔkəθò/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Taxila",
    "my:တက္ကသိုလ်"
  ],
  "word": "တက္ကသိုလ်"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese doublets",
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese nouns",
    "Burmese terms borrowed from Pali",
    "Burmese terms derived from Pali",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "my:Education",
    "my:History of Myanmar"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "cactakka.suil",
      "word": "စစ်တက္ကသိုလ်"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Pa'o Karen",
      "lang_code": "blk",
      "word": "တက္ကသိုလ်ႏ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Shan",
      "lang_code": "shn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tāk kǎ sò",
      "word": "တၵ်ႈၵသူဝ်ႇ"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Shan",
      "lang_code": "shn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "tâ̰k kǎ sò",
      "word": "တၵ်ႉၵသူဝ်ႇ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "pi",
        "3": "Takkasilā"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "တက္ကသီလာ",
        "t1": "Taxila"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”)",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā, in reference to the historical center of learning at Taxila, located in modern-day Pakistan. Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takka.suil",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "တက္ကသိုလ် • (takka.suil)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "university; institute of higher learning"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "university",
          "university#English"
        ],
        [
          "institute",
          "institute"
        ],
        [
          "higher",
          "higher"
        ],
        [
          "learning",
          "learning"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ယူနီဘာစီတီ"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Burmese terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colonial",
          "colonial"
        ],
        [
          "title",
          "title"
        ],
        [
          "pen names",
          "pen names#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛʔkəθò/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Taxila",
    "my:တက္ကသိုလ်"
  ],
  "word": "တက္ကသိုလ်"
}

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