စကား

Burmese

Etymology

The second syllable is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ka (“word; speech; language”), which may be connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (“mouth, opening”); cognate with Tibetan བཀའ (bka').

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ဂါး
• IPA^(key): /zəɡá/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ca.ka: • ALA-LC: cakāʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăga: • Okell: săkà
• Homophone: စံကား (camka:)

Noun

စကား • (ca.ka:) (classifier ခွန်း)

1. language (system of communication using words or symbols)
2. word

Synonyms

• ဘာသာ (bhasa)
• ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)

Derived terms

• စကားဝှက် (ca.ka:hwak)
• ဒေသိယစကား (desi.ya.ca.ka:)
• ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)