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ကော

See also: ကော်

Burmese

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Unclear if mentioned by STEDT, and Luce 1981 doesn't mention this.”)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ကော • (kau:)

  1. to silt up
  2. to head towards extinction, become obsolescent, lie dormant
  3. to become no longer useful
  4. to be self-assertive
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Etymology 2

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “MED has this as two senses - which one does the "and what about" belong to? the "inclusion particle" sense or the "emphasis particle" sense? Or is it something totally different?”

Pronunciation

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(after /ʔ/)

(after a vowel or /ɴ/)

  • Phonetic respelling: ဂေါ
  • IPA(key): /ɡɔ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: gaw: • Okell: kò

Particle

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ကော • (kau:)

  1. and what about? (used to apply an already asked question to a new topic)
    ခင်ဗျားကော ဘာလူမျိုးလဲ
    hkangbya:kau: bhalu-myui:lai:
    And where are you from?
    (after already answering the same question about oneself)
  2. particle suffixed to nouns denoting inclusion
  3. particle prefixed to interrogative phrases to denote inclusion: also
  4. particle placed at or near the end of a phrase or sentence as emphasis
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Further reading

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Mon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Burmese ကို (kui).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ကော (kao)

  1. elder brother

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

Pronoun

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ကော

  1. Burmese script form of ko, which is nominative singular of က (ka, “who (m.)”)
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