က
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Burmese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
- IPA(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká
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Usage notes edit
- The voiced pronunciation /ɡa̰/ occurs in the conjunction, particle, and postposition only, and only after a vowel or /ɴ/.
- When followed by ျ and ြ, forms digraphs ကျ and ကြ, pronounced /t͡ɕ/ (in unvoiced positions) or /d͡ʑ/ when voiced.
Etymology 1 edit
Letter edit
က • (ka.)
- Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.
Etymology 2 edit
Conjunction edit
က • (ka.)
- if
- မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains
Synonyms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Compare Korean 가 (-ga, “subject marker”).
Particle edit
က • (ka.)
- indicates the subject of the sentence, a topic marker
- သူက ဒီလို ပြောခဲ့တယ်
- suka. dilui prau:hkai.tai
- He said like this.
Etymology 4 edit
Postposition edit
က • (ka.)
- in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)
- ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year
- from (in reference to a place)
- တောင်ဘက်က ― taungbhakka. ― from the south
- ရန်ကုန်က ― rankunka. ― from Rangoon
Etymology 5 edit
Cognate with Chinese 歌 (gē, “to sing”) and Tibetan གར (gar, “to dance”).
Verb edit
က • (ka.)
Verb | က (ka.) |
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Noun | အက (a.ka.) |
- to dance
Synonyms edit
- ကခုန် (ka.hkun)
Etymology 6 edit
Noun edit
က • (ka.)
- (only used in compounds) fish
References edit
- “က” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
- “က” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
An instance of Translingual က, ultimately descending from Brahmi 𑀓.
Letter edit
က (ka)
- Ka, the first consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).
Noun edit
က (ka)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
က (ka)
- howdah harness saddle.
- fulcrum, short prop[2]
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
က (ka)
- to be lacking.
- to fail.
- ရုံဟွံကပဵုသှာတ်အာဣရ။
- ruṃhwaṃkapeushātʼāʼira.
- There is enough and to spare.
- သြန်မသုန်စှော်ဟွံက။
- sranmasunchokhwaṃka.
- There is fifty rupees and more.
Etymology 5 edit
Verb edit
က (transliteration needed)
- to harness a horse or any draught animal.
References edit
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Pronoun edit
က m
- Burmese script form of ka (“who (m.)”)
Declension edit
Declension table of "က" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | ကော (ko) | ကေ (ke) |
Accusative (second) | ကံ (kaṃ) | ကေ (ke) |
Instrumental (third) | ကေန (kena) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi) | ကေသု (kesu) |
Pronoun edit
က n
- Burmese script form of ka (“what”)
Declension edit
Declension table of "က" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | ကိံ (kiṃ) | ကာနိ (kāni) |
Accusative (second) | ကိံ (kiṃ) | ကာနိ (kāni) |
Instrumental (third) | ကေန (kena) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi) | ကေသု (kesu) |