ယာ

Burmese edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /jà/
Romanization: MLCTS: ya • ALA-LC: yā • BGN/PCGN: ya • Okell: ya

Etymology 1 edit

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Uncertain. Compare with Tibetan ལ (la, “hillside, mountain pass”) and Chinese 野 (“open country, field, wilderness, countryside area”).

Noun edit

ယာ • (ya)

farmland bearing crops rather than rice.
hillside cultivation area

Etymology 2 edit

From a Proto-Sino-Tibetan root. Cognate with Chinese 右 (yòu, “right-hand direction; west”).

Alternative forms edit

ညာ (nya)

Noun edit

ယာ • (ya)

right (direction).
လက်ယာ ― lakya ― right hand

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

ယာ • (ya)

to make betel quids

Classifier edit

ယာ • (ya)

numerical classifier for counting betel quids

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

yā (Latin script)
𑀬𑀸 (Brahmi script)
या (Devanagari script)
যা (Bengali script)
යා (Sinhalese script)
ယႃ (Burmese script)
ยา (Thai script)
ᨿᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ຍາ or ຢາ (Lao script)
យា (Khmer script)
𑄠𑄂 (Chakma script)

Pronoun edit

ယာ f

Burmese script form of yā

Declension edit

Declension table of "ယာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယာ (yā)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Instrumental (third)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယာယံ (yāyaṃ) or ယဿံ (yassaṃ)	ယာသု (yāsu)