ကေသ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali kesa. Doublet of ကေ (ke) and ကေသာ (kesa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kèθa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kesa. • ALA-LC: kesa • BGN/PCGN: ketha. • Okell: keithá

Proper noun

ကေသ • (kesa.)

1. a female given name from Pali

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• kesa (Latin script)
• 𑀓𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• केस (Devanagari script)
• কেস (Bengali script)
• කෙස (Sinhalese script)
• ၵေသ (Burmese script)
• เกส or เกสะ (Thai script)
• ᨠᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເກສ or ເກສະ (Lao script)
• កេស (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

ကေသ m

1. Burmese script form of kesa (“hair”)

Declension

Declension table of "ကေသ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကေသော (keso)	ကေသာ (kesā)
Accusative (second)	ကေသံ (kesaṃ)	ကေသေ (kese)
Instrumental (third)	ကေသေန (kesena)	ကေသေဟိ (kesehi) or ကေသေဘိ (kesebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကေသဿ (kesassa) or ကေသာယ (kesāya) or ကေသတ္ထံ (kesatthaṃ)	ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကေသသ္မာ (kesasmā) or ကေသမှာ (kesamhā) or ကေသာ (kesā)	ကေသေဟိ (kesehi) or ကေသေဘိ (kesebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကေသဿ (kesassa)	ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကေသသ္မိံ (kesasmiṃ) or ကေသမှိ (kesamhi) or ကေသေ (kese)	ကေသေသု (kesesu)
Vocative (calling)	ကေသ (kesa)	ကေသာ (kesā)