ဓမ္မ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali dhamma, from Sanskrit धर्म (dharma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰármas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérmos.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဒ'မ
• IPA^(key): /dəma̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: dhamma. • ALA-LC: dhamma • BGN/PCGN: dăma. • Okell: dămá

Noun

ဓမ္မ • (dhamma.)

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) dharma

Derived terms

• ဒိဌဓမ္မ (di.hta.dhamma.)
• ဓမ္မကထိက (dhamma.ka.hti.ka.)
• ဓမ္မကြောင်း (dhamma.kraung:)
• ဓမ္မက္ခန္ဓာ (dhammakhkandha)
• ဓမ္မစကြာ (dhamma.ca.kra)
• ဓမ္မစကြာနေ့ (dhamma.ca.krane.)
• ဓမ္မစကြာသုတ္တန် (dhamma.ca.krasuttan)
• ဓမ္မစက် (dhamma.cak)
• ဓမ္မစေတီ (dhamma.ceti)
• ဓမ္မတာ (dhamma.ta)
• ဓမ္မတာဝန် (dhamma.tawan)
• ဓမ္မဒါန (dhamma.dana.)
• ဓမ္မဒူတ (dhamma.duta.)
• ဓမ္မဒေသနာ (dhamma.desa.na)
• ဓမ္မဓိဌာန် (dhamma.dhi.htan)
• ဓမ္မဓိဌာန်ကျ (dhamma.dhi.htankya.)
• ဓမ္မဓိဌာန်မေးခွန်း (dhamma.dhi.htanme:hkwan:)
• ဓမ္မန္တရာယ် (dhammanta.ray)
• ဓမ္မဘဏ္ဍာဂါရိက (dhamma.bhandagari.ka.)
• ဓမ္မမိတ်ဆွေ (dhamma.mithcwe)
• ဓမ္မရာဇာ (dhamma.raja)
• ဓမ္မရေး (dhamma.re:)
• ဓမ္မဝါဒီ (dhamma.wadi)
• ဓမ္မသတ် (dhamma.sat)
• ဓမ္မသာလာ (dhamma.sala)
• ဓမ္မသေနာပတိ (dhamma.senapa.ti.)
• သဘာဝဓမ္မ (sa.bhawa.dhamma.)
• အတင်းအဓမ္မ (a.tang:a.dhamma.)
• အဓမ္မ (a.dhamma.)

 

Further reading

• “ဓမ္မ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 551.
• “ဓမ္မ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• dhamma (Latin script)
• 𑀥𑀫𑁆𑀫 (Brahmi script)
• धम्म (Devanagari script)
• ধম্ম (Bengali script)
• ධම‍්ම (Sinhalese script)
• ꩪမ္မ or ꩪမ်မ (Burmese script)
• ธมฺม or ธัมมะ (Thai script)
• ᨵᨾ᩠ᨾ (Tai Tham script)
• ຘມ຺ມ or ຘັມມະ or ທັມມະ or ທ຺ັມມະ (Lao script)
• ធម្ម (Khmer script)
• 𑄙𑄟𑄴𑄟 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဓမ္မ m

1. Burmese script form of dhamma (“righteousness”)
   • 2004, Sai Kam Mong, The History and Development of the Shan Scripts, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263:

     ဓမ္မ ဂုဏော အနန္တော၊

     dhamma ɡuṇo ananto.

     The virtue of the Law is endless.

Declension

Declension table of "ဓမ္မ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဓမ္မော (dhammo)	ဓမ္မာ (dhammā)
Accusative (second)	ဓမ္မံ (dhammaṃ)	ဓမ္မေ (dhamme)
Instrumental (third)	ဓမ္မေန (dhammena)	ဓမ္မေဟိ (dhammehi) or ဓမ္မေဘိ (dhammebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဓမ္မဿ (dhammassa) or ဓမ္မာယ (dhammāya) or ဓမ္မတ္ထံ (dhammatthaṃ)	ဓမ္မာနံ (dhammānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဓမ္မသ္မာ (dhammasmā) or ဓမ္မမှာ (dhammamhā) or ဓမ္မာ (dhammā)	ဓမ္မေဟိ (dhammehi) or ဓမ္မေဘိ (dhammebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဓမ္မဿ (dhammassa)	ဓမ္မာနံ (dhammānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဓမ္မသ္မိံ (dhammasmiṃ) or ဓမ္မမှိ (dhammamhi) or ဓမ္မေ (dhamme)	ဓမ္မေသု (dhammesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဓမ္မ (dhamma)	ဓမ္မာ (dhammā)