ဇီရာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit जीरक (jīraka).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zìjà/
Romanization: MLCTS: jira • ALA-LC: jīrā • BGN/PCGN: ziya • Okell: ziya

Noun

ဇီရာ • (jira) (classifier စေ့)

cumin
(regional, Danu) Synonym of ပူဒီနာ (pudina, “mint”)^[1]

Descendants

→ Shan: ၸီႇယႃႇ (tsìi yàa)

References

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

^ ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science‎^[1] (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022

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