ယ

See also: ယူ, ယူၢ်, ယဲၢ်, and ω

ယ U+101A, ယ MYANMAR LETTER YA ← မ [U+1019] Myanmar ရ → [U+101B]

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja̰/

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Letter

ယ

1. Ya, the 27th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

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Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛ̤ʔ/

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Letter

ယ (ya)

1. Ya, the twenty-sixth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

ယ (ya)

1. tar, pitch.
2. resin of resinous wood, used in caulking, tar, pitch, tar substitute prepared by mixing wax of dammar bee with petrol or wood-iol, is used as a substitute for pitch.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• ya (Latin script)
• 𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• य (Devanagari script)
• য (Bengali script)
• ය (Sinhalese script)
• ย or ยะ (Thai script)
• ᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ຍ or ຍະ or ຢະ (Lao script)
• យ (Khmer script)

Pronoun

ယ m

1. Burmese script form of ya (“who (relative)”)

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယော (yo)	ယေ (ye)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)	ယေ (ye)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi)	ယေသု (yesu)

Pronoun

ယ n

1. Burmese script form of ya (“which (relative)”)

Usage notes

The case form ယဒ် (yad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the asat and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad)	ယာနိ (yāni)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad)	ယာနိ (yāni)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi)	ယေသု (yesu)

Noun

ယ m

1. the Pali letter 'y'

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular
Nominative (first)	ယော (yo)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa) or ယာယ (yāya) or ယတ္ထံ (yatthaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā) or ယာ (yā)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi) or ယေ (ye)
Vocative (calling)	ယ (ya)