မာသ

Burmese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Pali māsa/

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /màθa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: masa. • ALA-LC: māsa • BGN/PCGN: matha. • Okell: mathá

Noun

မာသ • (masa.)

1. (literary, formal) month

Synonyms

• လ (la.)
• ရာသီ (rasi)

Derived terms

• စန္ဒြမာသ (candra.masa.)
• သူရိယမာသ (suri.ya.masa.)

 

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• māsa (Latin script)
• 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मास (Devanagari script)
• মাস (Bengali script)
• මාස (Sinhalese script)
• မႃသ (Burmese script)
• มาส or มาสะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᩣᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ມາສ or ມາສະ (Lao script)
• មាស (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄂𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

မာသ m

1. Burmese script form of māsa (“month”)
2. Burmese script form of māsa (“mungo bean”)
   • ဂျပါန် ရဋ္ဌတော စိတ္တမာသဿ သုက္ခပက္ခေ ဒုတိယာယံ နိက္ခန္တာ၊ ရာဇဒူတာ တသ္မိံ ယေ၀ ပက္ခေ ဒသမိယံ သျာမရဋ္ဌံ ပါပုဏိံသု။

     ɡyapān raṭṭhato cittamāsassa sukkhapakkhe dutiyāyaṃ nikkhantā, rājadūtā tasmiṃ yeva pakkhe dasamiyaṃ syāmaraṭṭhaṃ pāpuṇiṃsu.

     The envoys started from Japan on the second day after the new moon of the month of Citta (April) and reached Siam on the 10th of the same fortnight.

     (Reuse of example for ဂျပါန် (gyapān) contributed by 咽頭べさ on 13 May 2021)

Declension

Declension table of "မာသ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	မာသော (māso)	မာသာ (māsā)
Accusative (second)	မာသံ (māsaṃ)	မာသေ (māse)
Instrumental (third)	မာသေန (māsena)	မာသေဟိ (māsehi) or မာသေဘိ (māsebhi)
Dative (fourth)	မာသဿ (māsassa) or မာသာယ (māsāya) or မာသတ္ထံ (māsatthaṃ)	မာသာနံ (māsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	မာသသ္မာ (māsasmā) or မာသမှာ (māsamhā) or မာသာ (māsā)	မာသေဟိ (māsehi) or မာသေဘိ (māsebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	မာသဿ (māsassa)	မာသာနံ (māsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	မာသသ္မိံ (māsasmiṃ) or မာသမှိ (māsamhi) or မာသေ (māse)	မာသေသု (māsesu)
Vocative (calling)	မာသ (māsa)	မာသာ (māsā)

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• মাস (Assamese script)
• ᬫᬵᬲ (Balinese script)
• মাস (Bengali script)
• 𑰦𑰯𑰭 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀫𑀸𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मास (Devanagari script)
• માસ (Gujarati script)
• ਮਾਸ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌮𑌾𑌸 (Grantha script)
• ꦩꦴꦱ (Javanese script)
• 𑂧𑂰𑂮 (Kaithi script)
• ಮಾಸ (Kannada script)
• មាស (Khmer script)
• ມາສ (Lao script)
• മാസ (Malayalam script)
• ᠮᠠ᠎᠊ᠠᠰ᠌ᠠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘦𑘰𑘭 (Modi script)
• ᠮᠠᢗᠰᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧆𑧑𑧍 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐩𑐵𑐳 (Newa script)
• ମାସ (Odia script)
• ꢪꢵꢱ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆩𑆳𑆱 (Sharada script)
• 𑖦𑖯𑖭 (Siddham script)
• මාස (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩴𑩛𑪁 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚢𑚭𑚨 (Takri script)
• மாஸ (Tamil script)
• మాస (Telugu script)
• มาส (Thai script)
• མཱ་ས (Tibetan script)
• 𑒧𑒰𑒮 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨢𑨊𑨰 (Zanabazar Square script)

Noun

မာသ • (mā́sa) stem, m

1. Burmese script form of मास (“moon; month”)