"လား" meaning in Burmese

See လား in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Classifier

IPA: /lá/ Forms: la: [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-cls}} လား • (la:)
  1. numerical classifier for counting races in a contest consisting of a series of cart or boat races
    Sense id: en-လား-my-classifier-3r1MAQF9 Categories (other): Burmese classifiers, Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese classifiers: 95 0 5 Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 45 11 39 1 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 6 47 1 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 45 5 48 1 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /lá/ Forms: la: [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”); cognate with the first syllable of Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”) (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”). Etymology templates: {{inh|my|tbq-pro|*la|t=donkey, ass, mule}} Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”), {{cog|kac|t=donkey|tr=lo³¹ kuŋ³³}} Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”), {{ncog|och|-}} Old Chinese, {{och-l|驢|donkey}} 驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”) Head templates: {{my-noun}} လား • (la:)
  1. mule Derived forms: နွားလားဥသဘ (nwa:la:u.sa.bha.), မြင်းလား (mrang:la:)
    Sense id: en-လား-my-noun-1~rfnzwl Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 45 11 39 1 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Particle

IPA: /lá/ Forms: la: [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”). Compare perhaps Old Chinese 與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las), 歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”) (STEDT). Etymology templates: {{inh|my|tbq-lob-pro|*la²|t=question particle}} Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”), {{inh|my|sit-pro|*la-y|t=idem}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”), {{cog|och|-}} Old Chinese, {{och-l|與}} 與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las), {{och-l|歟|idem}} 歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”) Head templates: {{my-particle|cat2=interrogative particles}} လား • (la:)
  1. Interrogative particle used with a noun to form a yes/no question. Derived forms: နင်လားငါလား (nangla:ngala:), နေ့လားညလား (ne.la:nya.la:), လားကျမ်း (la:kyam:), သလား (sa.la:), ဟုတ်ရဲ့လား (hutrai.la:), ဟုတ်လား (hutla:), ဟေးလားဝါးလား (english: he:la:wa:la:) Related terms: လဲ (lai:)
    Sense id: en-လား-my-particle-icP72FNB Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header, Burmese interrogative particles, Burmese particles, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 45 11 39 1 4 Disambiguation of Burmese interrogative particles: 23 2 69 2 4 Disambiguation of Burmese particles: 36 4 51 3 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 6 47 1 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 45 5 48 1 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: လားလား (english: la:la:), လားလားမျှ (english: la:la:hmya.)
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /lá/ Forms: la: [romanization]
Head templates: {{my-verb}} လား • (la:)
  1. to reach
    Sense id: en-လား-my-verb-A2HIx~em
  2. to go
    Sense id: en-လား-my-verb-gNM9bcDR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: ကလေးကလား (ka.le:ka.la:), ချွတ်လား (hkywatla:), စီးလားရိုက် (ci:la:ruik), တောလား (tau:la:), ထွေးလားလုံးလား (htwe:la:lum:la:), ဒုံးကလား (dum:ka.la:), ပျဉ်တလား (pyanyta.la:), မိုးလားကဲလား (mui:la:kai:la:), ရေလား (rela:), လိုလား (luila:), လိုလိုလားလား (luiluila:la:), လုံးလားထွေးလား (lum:la:htwe:la:), လူလားမြောက် (lula:mrauk), လောက်လောက်လားလား (lauklaukla:la:), သပြေလားရေလား (sa.prela:rela:), အပါယ်လား (a.payla:), လားလား (english: la:la:), လားလားမျှ (english: la:la:hmya.)
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "ka.le:ka.la:",
      "word": "ကလေးကလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "hkywatla:",
      "word": "ချွတ်လား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "ci:la:ruik",
      "word": "စီးလားရိုက်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "tau:la:",
      "word": "တောလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "htwe:la:lum:la:",
      "word": "ထွေးလားလုံးလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "dum:ka.la:",
      "word": "ဒုံးကလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "pyanyta.la:",
      "word": "ပျဉ်တလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "mui:la:kai:la:",
      "word": "မိုးလားကဲလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "rela:",
      "word": "ရေလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "luila:",
      "word": "လိုလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "luiluila:la:",
      "word": "လိုလိုလားလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "lum:la:htwe:la:",
      "word": "လုံးလားထွေးလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "lula:mrauk",
      "word": "လူလားမြောက်"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "lauklaukla:la:",
      "word": "လောက်လောက်လားလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "sa.prela:rela:",
      "word": "သပြေလားရေလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "a.payla:",
      "word": "အပါယ်လား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "la:la:",
      "word": "လားလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "la:la:hmya.",
      "word": "လားလားမျှ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to reach"
      ],
      "id": "en-လား-my-verb-A2HIx~em",
      "links": [
        [
          "reach",
          "reach"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go"
      ],
      "id": "en-လား-my-verb-gNM9bcDR",
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-cls"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "classifier",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "95 0 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese classifiers",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 11 39 1 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 6 47 1 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 5 48 1 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "numerical classifier for counting races in a contest consisting of a series of cart or boat races"
      ],
      "id": "en-လား-my-classifier-3r1MAQF9",
      "links": [
        [
          "races",
          "races"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ],
        [
          "series",
          "series"
        ],
        [
          "cart",
          "cart"
        ],
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-pro",
        "3": "*la",
        "t": "donkey, ass, mule"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kac",
        "t": "donkey",
        "tr": "lo³¹ kuŋ³³"
      },
      "expansion": "Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "och",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Chinese",
      "name": "ncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "驢",
        "2": "donkey"
      },
      "expansion": "驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”); cognate with the first syllable of Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”) (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 11 39 1 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "nwa:la:u.sa.bha.",
          "word": "နွားလားဥသဘ"
        },
        {
          "roman": "mrang:la:",
          "word": "မြင်းလား"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mule"
      ],
      "id": "en-လား-my-noun-1~rfnzwl",
      "links": [
        [
          "mule",
          "mule"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "la:la:",
      "word": "လားလား"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "la:la:hmya.",
      "word": "လားလားမျှ"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*la²",
        "t": "question particle"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*la-y",
        "t": "idem"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "och",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "與"
      },
      "expansion": "與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las)",
      "name": "och-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "歟",
        "2": "idem"
      },
      "expansion": "歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”). Compare perhaps Old Chinese 與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las), 歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”) (STEDT).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "cat2": "interrogative particles"
      },
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "45 11 39 1 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 2 69 2 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese interrogative particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 4 51 3 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 6 47 1 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "45 5 48 1 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "nangla:ngala:",
          "word": "နင်လားငါလား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ne.la:nya.la:",
          "word": "နေ့လားညလား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "la:kyam:",
          "word": "လားကျမ်း"
        },
        {
          "roman": "sa.la:",
          "word": "သလား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hutrai.la:",
          "word": "ဟုတ်ရဲ့လား"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hutla:",
          "word": "ဟုတ်လား"
        },
        {
          "english": "he:la:wa:la:",
          "word": "ဟေးလားဝါးလား"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Is it this house?",
          "roman": "diimla:",
          "text": "ဒီအိမ်လား",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Interrogative particle used with a noun to form a yes/no question."
      ],
      "id": "en-လား-my-particle-icP72FNB",
      "related": [
        {
          "roman": "lai:",
          "word": "လဲ"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}
{
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    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese interrogative particles",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "ka.le:ka.la:",
      "word": "ကလေးကလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hkywatla:",
      "word": "ချွတ်လား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ci:la:ruik",
      "word": "စီးလားရိုက်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tau:la:",
      "word": "တောလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "htwe:la:lum:la:",
      "word": "ထွေးလားလုံးလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dum:ka.la:",
      "word": "ဒုံးကလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "pyanyta.la:",
      "word": "ပျဉ်တလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mui:la:kai:la:",
      "word": "မိုးလားကဲလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "rela:",
      "word": "ရေလား"
    },
    {
      "english": "la:la:",
      "word": "လားလား"
    },
    {
      "english": "la:la:hmya.",
      "word": "လားလားမျှ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luila:",
      "word": "လိုလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luiluila:la:",
      "word": "လိုလိုလားလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lum:la:htwe:la:",
      "word": "လုံးလားထွေးလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lula:mrauk",
      "word": "လူလားမြောက်"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lauklaukla:la:",
      "word": "လောက်လောက်လားလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sa.prela:rela:",
      "word": "သပြေလားရေလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "a.payla:",
      "word": "အပါယ်လား"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to reach"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reach",
          "reach"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

{
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    "Burmese classifiers",
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese interrogative particles",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-cls"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "classifier",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "numerical classifier for counting races in a contest consisting of a series of cart or boat races"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "races",
          "races"
        ],
        [
          "contest",
          "contest"
        ],
        [
          "series",
          "series"
        ],
        [
          "cart",
          "cart"
        ],
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese interrogative particles",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese nouns",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Tibeto-Burman",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for native script for Jingpho terms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "nwa:la:u.sa.bha.",
      "word": "နွားလားဥသဘ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "mrang:la:",
      "word": "မြင်းလား"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-pro",
        "3": "*la",
        "t": "donkey, ass, mule"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kac",
        "t": "donkey",
        "tr": "lo³¹ kuŋ³³"
      },
      "expansion": "Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "och",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Chinese",
      "name": "ncog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "驢",
        "2": "donkey"
      },
      "expansion": "驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *la (“donkey, ass, mule”); cognate with the first syllable of Jingpho [script needed] (lo³¹ kuŋ³³, “donkey”) (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 驢 (OC *b·ra, “donkey”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "mule"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mule",
          "mule"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese interrogative particles",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese particles",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "nangla:ngala:",
      "word": "နင်လားငါလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ne.la:nya.la:",
      "word": "နေ့လားညလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "la:kyam:",
      "word": "လားကျမ်း"
    },
    {
      "english": "la:la:",
      "word": "လားလား"
    },
    {
      "english": "la:la:hmya.",
      "word": "လားလားမျှ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sa.la:",
      "word": "သလား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hutrai.la:",
      "word": "ဟုတ်ရဲ့လား"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hutla:",
      "word": "ဟုတ်လား"
    },
    {
      "english": "he:la:wa:la:",
      "word": "ဟေးလားဝါးလား"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*la²",
        "t": "question particle"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "sit-pro",
        "3": "*la-y",
        "t": "idem"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "och",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Chinese",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "與"
      },
      "expansion": "與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las)",
      "name": "och-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "歟",
        "2": "idem"
      },
      "expansion": "歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”)",
      "name": "och-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *la² (“question particle”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *la-y (“idem”). Compare perhaps Old Chinese 與 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las), 歟 (OC *la, *laʔ, *las, “idem”) (STEDT).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "la:",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "cat2": "interrogative particles"
      },
      "expansion": "လား • (la:)",
      "name": "my-particle"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "particle",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "lai:",
      "word": "လဲ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Burmese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Is it this house?",
          "roman": "diimla:",
          "text": "ဒီအိမ်လား",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Interrogative particle used with a noun to form a yes/no question."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lá/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "လား"
}

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