ဇရာ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali jarā.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ရာ
• IPA^(key): /zəjà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ja.ra • ALA-LC: jarā • BGN/PCGN: zăya • Okell: zăya

Noun

ဇရာ • (ja.ra)

1. old age; decrepitude; decay

Derived terms

• ဇရာထောင်း (ja.rahtaung:)
• ဇရာဒုဗ္ဗလ (ja.radubba.la.)
• ဇရာအို (ja.raui)

 

References

• “ဇရာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• jarā (Latin script)
• 𑀚𑀭𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• जरा (Devanagari script)
• জরা (Bengali script)
• ජරා (Sinhalese script)
• ၹရႃ (Burmese script)
• ชรา or ชะรา (Thai script)
• ᨩᩁᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຊຣາ or ຊະຣາ (Lao script)
• ជរា (Khmer script)
• 𑄎𑄢𑄂 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ဇရာ

1. Burmese script form of jarā, ablative singular masculine/neuter and nominative/vocative plural masculine of ဇရ (jara, “old”)
2. Burmese script form of jarā, nominative singular feminine and nominative/vocative/accusative plural feminine of ဇရ (jara, “old”)

Noun

ဇရာ f

1. Burmese script form of jarā (“old age”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဇရာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဇရာ (jarā)	ဇရာယော (jarāyo) or ဇရာ (jarā)
Accusative (second)	ဇရံ (jaraṃ)	ဇရာယော (jarāyo) or ဇရာ (jarā)
Instrumental (third)	ဇရာယ (jarāya)	ဇရာဟိ (jarāhi) or ဇရာဘိ (jarābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဇရာယ (jarāya)	ဇရာနံ (jarānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဇရာယ (jarāya)	ဇရာဟိ (jarāhi) or ဇရာဘိ (jarābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဇရာယ (jarāya)	ဇရာနံ (jarānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဇရာယ (jarāya) or ဇရာယံ (jarāyaṃ)	ဇရာသု (jarāsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဇရေ (jare)	ဇရာယော (jarāyo) or ဇရာ (jarā)