တူ

Borrowed from Pali tulā (“scales”). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).


နဂါး

na.ga: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၼၵႃး (nǎ káa)

Borrowed from Pali nāga, from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá).


ကန်

→ Shan: ၵၼ်ႇ (kàn)

(astrology) Virgo (the sixth sign of the Zodiac)


နတ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nat (“sickness, spirit”); cognate with Jingpho nat (“spirit, ancestral spirit”). Doublet of နာ (na, “hurt; sick”) (STEDT).
Alternatively, MED considers the word as borrowed from Pali nātha (“protector”).

cog

(mythology) nat (spirits heavily venerated in Burmese folk religion, either celestial or spectral).


နာမ်

my-noun

နာမ် • (nam)

Borrowed from Pali nāma, from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Doublet of နာမ (nama.).


ကြိယာ

kri.ya (romanization)
ကရိယာ (alternative obsolete)

Borrowed from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do, make, build”). Doublet of ကိရိယာ (ki.ri.ya).

der

parts of speech: ဝါစင်္ဂeditကြိယာကြိယာဝိသေသနကိန်းနာမဝိသေသနနာမ်နာမ်စားပစ္စည်းရှေ့ဆက်ဝိဘတ်သင်္ချာပစ္စည်းသမ္ဗန္ဓ


ဗျည်း

Borrowed from Mon ဗျဥ်, Pali byañjana (“sign; mark; consonant”), from Sanskrit व्यञ्जन (vyañjana).


သရ

Borrowed from Pali sara (“sound; voice; intonation; vowel”), from Sanskrit स्वर (svara).


နာမဝိသေသန

/nàma̰wḭθèθəna̰/


ကြိယာဝိသေသန

/kəɹḭjàwḭθèθəna̰/

ကြိယာ (kri.ya, “verb”) + ဝိသေသန (wi.sesa.na., “qualifier”). Compare Thai กริยาวิเศษณ์ (grì-yaa-wí-sèet), Khmer កិរិយាវិសេសន៍ (keriyaa visaeh), Lao ກະຣິຍາວິເສດ (ka ri nyā wi sēt).

cog

กริยาวิเศษณ์

កិរិយាវិសេសន៍


နာမ်စား

my-noun

နာမ်စား • (namca:)


အာမေဍိတ်

အာမေဍိတ် • (amedit)


ပစ္စည်း

Borrowed from Pali paccaya (“cause, motive, requisite, means, support”).

bor+

(grammar) particle (word serving to qualify a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb or an adverb)


ဝါကျ

Borrowed from Pali vākya (“speech; sentence”), compare Sanskrit वाक्य (vākya).


ဂဏန်း

→ Shan: ၵၼၢၼ်း (kǎ náan)

→ Shan: ၶၼၢၼ်း (khǎ náan)

Borrowed from Pali gaṇanā (“counting; number”); see Sanskrit गण् (gaṇ, “to count, calculate”) for more on the root.


ကံ

Borrowed from Pali kamma. Doublet of ဧကံ (ekam).


ဝိဘတ်

Borrowed from Pali vibhatti (“division, distinction, classification, detail; inflection, declension, conjugation”).

bor

(grammar) postposition; post-positional marker; word suffixed to a noun or pronoun to designate it as the subject or object, and to a verb to indicate time or mood


ကိန်း

my-noun

ကိန်း • (kin:)

Borrowed from Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron).


ဝါစင်္ဂ

ဝါသာ (wasa) + အင်္ဂါ (angga), from Pali vācā + aṅga.


ပရိယာယ်

Borrowed from Pali pariyāya, cognate with Sanskrit पर्याय (paryāya).


ဘီလူး

bhilu: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ၽီလူး (phǐi lúu)

Perhaps borrowed from Sanskrit भैरव (bhairava).

(mythology) ogre (brutish giant that eats human flesh)


စန်း

(astrology) the moon (represented by the numeral two "ဋ္ဌ" on a horoscope)


ဟင်္သာ

hangsa (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

→ Shan: ႁင်းသႃႇ (háng sàa)


ပဉ္စရူပ

ပဉ္စရူပ • (panyca.rupa.) (classifier ကောင်)

panyca.rupa. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) + ရူပ (rupa., “beauties”), borrowed from Pali pañca (“five”) + Pali rūpa (“beauties”).

com

တိုးနရား တိုးနရား#Burmese

ဟင်္သာ ဟင်္သာ#Burmese

(mythology) chimeric animal with component parts of an elephant, bullock, horse, carp and tonaya (တိုးနရား (tui:na.ra:)), or alternately lion, elephant, buffalo, carp and brahminy duck (ဟင်္သာ (hangsa)).


နဝရူပ

my-noun

နဝရူပ • (na.wa.rupa.) (classifier ကောင်)

na.wa.rupa. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

နဝ (na.wa., “nine”) + ရူပ (rupa., “form”). Borrowed from Pali nava (“nine”) + Pali rūpa (“form”).

com

(mythology) chimeric animal found in Burmese art


သဒ္ဒါဆယ်ပါး

/ðədàsʰɛ̀bá/

သဒ္ဒါ (sadda, “sounds”) + ဆယ် (hcai, “ten”) + ပါး (pa:)

af

(linguistics) classification of words into ten categories, according to their articulation in Burmese scholarship


အတွင်းတာရာ

/ʔətwɪ́ɴtàjà/

အတွင်း (a.twang:, “inner”) + တာရာ (tara, “stars”)

(astrology, astronomy) nine constellations within the apparent orbit of the 27 lunar mansions


ပန်းခုနစ်မည်

ပန်း (pan:, “flowers”) + ခုနစ် (hku.nac, “seven”) + မည် (many, “types”)

(astrology) seven kinds of flowers, each having an astrological significance for one of the seven days of the week.


ဗြိစ္ဆာ

From Sanskrit वृश्चिक (vṛścika, “scorpion”).

(astrology) Scorpio (the eighth sign of the zodiac)


ဂရု

မတြာ မတြာ#Burmese

(linguistics) heavy, stressed sound (i.e. a sound having a duration of two မတြာ (ma.tra))


သုဒ္ဒကြိယာ

/θoʊʔda̰kəɹḭjà/

သုဒ္ဒ (sudda.) + ကြိယာ (kri.ya), the first element from Pali sudda, and the second element from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā).


တိုးနရား

my-noun

တိုးနရား • (tui:na.ra:) (classifier ကောင်)

na.ra: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) fabulous creature that inhabits the Himalayas.


ကိန္နရာ

kinna.ra (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) kinnara, mythical bird with human head and torso


ကိန္နရီ

kinna.ri (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) kinnari, female mythical bird with human head and torso


မကန်း

ma.kan: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

(mythology) mythical sea monster resembling a crocodile with a prehensile snout

(mythology) mythical marine creature resembling a large crayfish


ကရဝိက်

ka.ra.wik (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

From Pali karavīka, cognate with Sanskrit कलविङ्क (kalaviṅka).

(mythology) mythical bird with a melodious voice


ဂဠုန်

ga.lun (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

Borrowed from Pali garuḷa; see Sanskrit गरुड (garuḍá) for more.

(mythology) garuda; mythical king of birds and also the enemy of the naga


ဝလာဟကမြင်း

ဝလာဟကမြင်း • (wa.laha.ka.mrang:) (classifier ကောင်)

wa.laha.ka.mrang: (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

ဝလာဟက (wa.laha.ka., “sky”) + မြင်း (mrang:, “horse”), with the first element from Pali valāhaka.

af

(mythology) mythical flying horse; Pegasus


မနုဿီဟ

my-noun

မနုဿီဟ • (ma.nu.ssiha.) (classifier ကောင်)

ma.nu.ssiha. (romanization)
ကောင် (classifier)

မနုဿ (ma.nu.ssa., “human”) + သီဟ (siha., “lion”), from Pali manussīha.

af

(mythology) chimeric creature with a man's torso and a lion's hindquarters, depicted in a squatting posture on forked haunches


ဗဟုဝုစ်ကိန်း

/bəhṵ woʊʔkéɪɴ/

ဗဟုဝုစ် (ba.hu.wuc, “plural”) + ကိန်း (kin:, “numeral”), from Pali bahu + Pali vacana + Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra).


ဧကဝုစ်ကိန်း

/ʔèɡə woʊʔkéɪɴ/

ဧကဝုစ် (eka.wuc, “singular”) + ကိန်း (kin:, “numeral”). Borrowed from Pali ekavacana or Sanskrit एकवचन (ekavacana) + Sanskrit केन्द्र (kendra).


ပြဿဒါး

(Myanmar, astrology) inauspicious day; ill-fated day


လွှတ်ရုံးငါးရပ်

/l̥ʊʔjóʊɴŋájaʔ/

လွှတ် (hlwat, “delegated”) + ရုံး (rum:, “office”) + ငါး (nga:, “five”) + ရပ် (rap, “measure word”)

af

(history) the five governing bodies that formed the basis of pre-colonial administration in Burmese kingdoms


ကိတ်

my-noun

ကိတ် • (kit)

နက္ခတ် နက္ခတ်#Burmese

(astrology) the twenty-eighth lunar asterism; though the lunar asterism, i.e. nakshatra (နက္ခတ် (nakhkat)) consists of twenty-seven lunar mansions, indeed.


သူယောင်

(mythology) fabulous creeper in the Himalayas said to bear flora in the form of nymphs


သူယောင်မယ်

သူယောင် သူယောင်#Burmese

(mythology) flower of the သူယောင် (suyaung) plant transformed into a beautiful maid through supernatural means


ဟေတုပစ္စယော

/hètṵpɪʔsəjɔ́/

(Buddhism, philosophy) hetu-paccaya, the six "root conditions" (attachment, anti-attachment, aggressiveness, anti-aggressiveness, ignorance, and wisdom) that engender all thoughts and feelings in Buddhist philosophy


ပူး

(astronomy, astrology) to be in conjunction


ယက္ခ

From Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa, “yakṣa”). Cognate with យក្ស (yĕək); Lao ຍັກ (nyak) and Thai ยักษ์ (yák). Compare Pali yakkha.


သိဟ်

သိဟ် • (sih)


ကျီးတာရာ

ကျီး (kyi:, “crow”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

af

(astrology, astronomy) Perseus (constellation)


ချိန်တာရာ

/t͡ɕʰèɪɴtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) constellation of stars from the hind legs of Ursa Major


ဆံကျင်တာရာ

/sʰàɴt͡ɕɪ̀ɴtàjà/

ဆံ (hcam) + ကျင် (kyang, “star”) + တာရာ (tara)

(astrology, astronomy) Coma Berenices (constellation)


ဆင်တာရာ

(astrology, astronomy) Cygnus (constellation)


တံငါတာရာ

တံငါ (tamnga, “fisherman”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Hercules (constellation)


ပုစွန်တာရာ

/bəzʊ̀ɴtàjà/

ပုစွန် (pu.cwan, “prawn”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) constellation comprising stars from the head, and forelegs of the Great Bear (Ursa Major)


ဗျိုင်းတာရာ

ဗျိုင်း (byuing:, “egret”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Cassiopeia (constellation)


ဟင်္သာတာရာ

/hɪ̀ɴθàtàjà/

(astrology, astronomy) Auriga (constellation)


မြင်းတာရာ

မြင်း (mrang:, “horse”) + တာရာ (tara, “star”)

(astrology, astronomy) Cepheus (constellation)


ရာသီရုပ်

my-noun

ရာသီရုပ် • (rasirup)

ရာသီ (rasi, “zodiac”) + ရုပ် (rup, “figure, appearance”)


မိဿ

(astrology) Aries, the first sign of the zodiac


ပြိဿ

(astrology) Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac


ကရကဋ်

(astrology) Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac


ကုံ

(astrology) Aquarius, the eleventh sign of the zodiac


မိန်

my-noun

မိန် • (min)

(astrology) Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac


မကရ

(astrology) Capricorn, the tenth sign of the zodiac


အဝဂ်

(phonetics) a group of miscellaneous consonants not belonging to any of the groups that are arranged in the Burmese alphabet according to their place of articulation. They are ယ (ya.), ရ (ra.), လ (la.), ဝ (wa.), သ (sa.), ဟ (ha.), ဠ (la.), and အ (a.).


ဗဟုဝုစ်

Borrowed from Pali bahuvacana or Pali bahu + Pali vacana. Compare Khmer ពហុវចនៈ (pĕəʼhuʼ vaccaʼnaʼ).


ဧကဝုစ်

Borrowed from Pali ekavacana or Pali eka + Pali vacana. Compare Khmer ឯកវចនៈ (ʼaek vaccaʼnaʼ).


မဟာဘုတ်

(astrology) one of the basic methods of casting a horoscope


လွန်း

(astrology) term for a particular celestial abode


ရင်းမြစ်

ရင်း (rang:, “base”) + မြစ် (mrac, “root”).