"မယ်" meaning in Burmese

See မယ် in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mɛ̀/ Forms: mai [romanization], [alternative]
Head templates: {{my-noun}} မယ် • (mai)
  1. (same as အမယ် (a.mai)) woman, mother, etc.
    Sense id: en-မယ်-my-noun-XHZXUvUa
  2. titleholder in a beauty contest
    Sense id: en-မယ်-my-noun-9CUu29JM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Particle

IPA: /mɛ̀/ Forms: mai [romanization], [alternative]
Head templates: {{my-particle}} မယ် • (mai)
  1. (honorific) a title used by young women in lieu of မ (ma.), typically in literature Tags: honorific
    Sense id: en-မယ်-my-particle-PP8wGm37 Derived forms: ကိုယ်ဟန်ပြမယ် (kuiyhanpra.mai), ဇိမ်မယ် (jimmai), တူသားနောင်မယ် (tusa:naungmai), မယ်စော (maicau:), မယ်ညို (mai-nyui), မယ်တော် (maitau), မယ်တော်ပျံ (maitau-pyam), မယ်တော်အီကစားနည်း (maitauika.ca:nany:), မယ်ဘွဲ့ (maibhwai.), မယ်မင်း (maimang:), မယ်မင်းကြီးမ (maimang:kri:ma.), မယ်သီတာ (maisita), မယ်သီလ (maisila.), မောင်မယ် (maungmai), ယိုးမယ်ဖွဲ့ (yui:maihpwai.), လေယာဉ်မယ် (leyanymai), သံတိုမယ်န (samtuimaina.), သူယောင်မယ် (suyaungmai), ဟန်ပြမယ် (hanpra.mai), အပြာမယ် (a.pramai)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Particle

IPA: /mɛ̀/ Forms: mai [romanization], [alternative]
Etymology: Colloquial form of မည် (many). Head templates: {{my-particle}} မယ် • (mai)
  1. (colloquial) used to indicate the future tense Tags: colloquial Synonyms: မည် (english: many) [formal, literary]
    Sense id: en-မယ်-my-particle-Iw-r~D1T
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun

IPA: /mɛ̀/ Forms: mai [romanization], [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|my|pronoun|head=|sort=|tr=}} မယ် • (mai), {{my-pronoun}} မယ် • (mai)
  1. a term of endearment used when addressing young ladies
    Sense id: en-မယ်-my-pron-rRrfNisr Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Burmese particles, Burmese pronouns, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 1 25 16 11 46 Disambiguation of Burmese particles: 4 26 11 9 50 Disambiguation of Burmese pronouns: 3 24 23 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 27 7 8 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 25 14 6 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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      "form": "mai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
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      "roman": "ma.",
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          "woman",
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          "mother",
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        ]
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "titleholder in a beauty contest"
      ],
      "id": "en-မယ်-my-noun-9CUu29JM",
      "links": [
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        ],
        [
          "beauty contest",
          "beauty contest"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "မယ်"
}

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          "term",
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        [
          "endearment",
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          "young",
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        [
          "ladies",
          "lady"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
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  "word": "မယ်"
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
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    },
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      "roman": "ma.",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "kuiyhanpra.mai",
          "word": "ကိုယ်ဟန်ပြမယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "jimmai",
          "word": "ဇိမ်မယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "tusa:naungmai",
          "word": "တူသားနောင်မယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maicau:",
          "word": "မယ်စော"
        },
        {
          "roman": "mai-nyui",
          "word": "မယ်ညို"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maitau",
          "word": "မယ်တော်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maitau-pyam",
          "word": "မယ်တော်ပျံ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maitauika.ca:nany:",
          "word": "မယ်တော်အီကစားနည်း"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maibhwai.",
          "word": "မယ်ဘွဲ့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maimang:",
          "word": "မယ်မင်း"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maimang:kri:ma.",
          "word": "မယ်မင်းကြီးမ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maisita",
          "word": "မယ်သီတာ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maisila.",
          "word": "မယ်သီလ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "maungmai",
          "word": "မောင်မယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "yui:maihpwai.",
          "word": "ယိုးမယ်ဖွဲ့"
        },
        {
          "roman": "leyanymai",
          "word": "လေယာဉ်မယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "samtuimaina.",
          "word": "သံတိုမယ်န"
        },
        {
          "roman": "suyaungmai",
          "word": "သူယောင်မယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hanpra.mai",
          "word": "ဟန်ပြမယ်"
        },
        {
          "roman": "a.pramai",
          "word": "အပြာမယ်"
        }
      ],
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              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
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              0,
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            ]
          ],
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          "roman": "maisita",
          "text": "မယ်သီတာ",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "a title used by young women in lieu of မ (ma.), typically in literature"
      ],
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          "title",
          "title"
        ],
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          "မ",
          "မ#Burmese"
        ]
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        "(honorific) a title used by young women in lieu of မ (ma.), typically in literature"
      ],
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      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "မယ်"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Colloquial form of မည် (many).",
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "မ",
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              24,
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            ]
          ],
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            [
              19,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I will eat noodles.",
          "roman": "kywanma. hkaukhcwai: ca:mai||",
          "text": "ကျွန်မ ခေါက်ဆွဲ စားမယ်။",
          "type": "example"
        }
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    }
  ],
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          "beauty contest",
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  ],
  "word": "မယ်"
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    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
    }
  ],
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      "roman": "kuiyhanpra.mai",
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    },
    {
      "roman": "jimmai",
      "word": "ဇိမ်မယ်"
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      "word": "မယ်တော်"
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      "word": "မယ်တော်ပျံ"
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      "word": "မယ်တော်အီကစားနည်း"
    },
    {
      "roman": "maibhwai.",
      "word": "မယ်ဘွဲ့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "maimang:",
      "word": "မယ်မင်း"
    },
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      "roman": "maimang:kri:ma.",
      "word": "မယ်မင်းကြီးမ"
    },
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      "roman": "maisita",
      "word": "မယ်သီတာ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "maisila.",
      "word": "မယ်သီလ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "maungmai",
      "word": "မောင်မယ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yui:maihpwai.",
      "word": "ယိုးမယ်ဖွဲ့"
    },
    {
      "roman": "leyanymai",
      "word": "လေယာဉ်မယ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "samtuimaina.",
      "word": "သံတိုမယ်န"
    },
    {
      "roman": "suyaungmai",
      "word": "သူယောင်မယ်"
    },
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      "roman": "hanpra.mai",
      "word": "ဟန်ပြမယ်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "a.pramai",
      "word": "အပြာမယ်"
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          "english": "Sita",
          "roman": "maisita",
          "text": "မယ်သီတာ",
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        "a title used by young women in lieu of မ (ma.), typically in literature"
      ],
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          "မ",
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        "(honorific) a title used by young women in lieu of မ (ma.), typically in literature"
      ],
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        "honorific"
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    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "မယ်"
}

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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Colloquial form of မည် (many).",
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      "form": "mai",
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      "form": "မ",
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          ],
          "english": "I will eat noodles.",
          "roman": "kywanma. hkaukhcwai: ca:mai||",
          "text": "ကျွန်မ ခေါက်ဆွဲ စားမယ်။",
          "type": "example"
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      ],
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        "used to indicate the future tense"
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        "(colloquial) used to indicate the future tense"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ̀/"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "many",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "မည်"
    }
  ],
  "word": "မယ်"
}

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{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: same as အမယ် (a.mai)",
  "path": [
    "မယ်"
  ],
  "section": "Burmese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "မယ်",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: same as အမယ် (a.mai)",
  "path": [
    "မယ်"
  ],
  "section": "Burmese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "မယ်",
  "trace": ""
}

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