တေဇော

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali tejas (“flame; heat; fire”); compare Sanskrit तेजस् (tejas). The borrowed form is that of the Pali nominative singular.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tèzɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tejau: • ALA-LC: tejo • BGN/PCGN: tezaw: • Okell: teizò

Noun

တေဇော • (tejau:)

1. heat
2. fire

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• tejo (Latin script)
• 𑀢𑁂𑀚𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• तेजो (Devanagari script)
• তেজো (Bengali script)
• තෙජො (Sinhalese script)
• တေၹေႃ (Burmese script)
• เตโช (Thai script)
• ᨲᩮᨩᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ເຕໂຊ (Lao script)
• តេជោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄬𑄎𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

တေဇော

1. Burmese script form of tejo, which is nominative/vocative/accusative singular of တေဇသ် (tejas, “brilliance”)