ရ

ရ U+101B, ရ MYANMAR LETTER RA ← ယ [U+101A] Myanmar လ → [U+101C]

Translingual

Letter

ရ

1. Ra, a letter of the Mon-Burmese script.
   • Burmese ရာဇာ (raja, “king”)
   • Mon ရမာန် (ramān, “Mon”)
   • Pali နိရုဇ္ဈတိ (nirujjhati, “to be destroyed”)
   • Rakhine ရွှ (hrwa., “saw (tool)”)
   • Rakhine ရှေ့တော်ခံ (hre.tauhkam)
   • Shan ရႁၢၼ်း (rǎháan, “monk”)

Burmese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ra. • ALA-LC: ra • BGN/PCGN: ya. • Okell: yá

(for certain loanwords derived from Pali or English):

• Phonetic respelling: *ရ
• IPA^(key): /ɹa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ra. • ALA-LC: ra • BGN/PCGN: ra. • Okell: rá

Letter

ရ • (ra.)

1. Ra, the 28th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-ra (“strength; to win; classifier for people”); cognate with အား (a:, “strength; force”), Chinese 力 (lì, “id”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ra. • ALA-LC: ra • BGN/PCGN: ya. • Okell: yá

Verb

ရ • (ra.)

1. to succeed, manage, be able
2. to be permitted, be all right, be OK

   မရပါဘူး။

   ma.ra.pabhu:||

   It’s not OK.

3. must, have to

   ဘယ်လောက် ပေးရသလဲ။

   bhailauk pe:ra.sa.lai:||

   How much do you have to pay?

   ကျွန်တော်ရန်ကုန်ကိုသွားရမယ်။

   kywantaurankunkuiswa:ra.mai||

   I must go to Yangon. (male speaker)

4. to get, obtain

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛ̤ʔ/

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Letter

ရ (ra)

1. Ra, the twenty-seventh consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Pronoun

ရ (ra)

1. particle of unqualified assertion.

Adjective

ရ (ra)

1. assertive.
2. Closing the sentence, in questions It precedes the interrogative particle also used with the imperative.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ra (Latin script)
• 𑀭 (Brahmi script)
• र (Devanagari script)
• র (Bengali script)
• ර (Sinhalese script)
• ร or ระ (Thai script)
• ᩁ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣ or ຣະ (Lao script)
• រ (Khmer script)
• 𑄢 (Chakma script)

Noun

ရ m

1. Burmese script form of ra (“the Pali letter 'r'”)

Declension

Declension table of "ရ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular
Nominative (first)	ရော (ro)
Accusative (second)	ရံ (raṃ)
Instrumental (third)	ရေန (rena)
Dative (fourth)	ရဿ (rassa) or ရာယ (rāya) or ရတ္ထံ (ratthaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ရသ္မာ (rasmā) or ရမှာ (ramhā) or ရာ (rā)
Genitive (sixth)	ရဿ (rassa)
Locative (seventh)	ရသ္မိံ (rasmiṃ) or ရမှိ (ramhi) or ရေ (re)
Vocative (calling)	ရ (ra)

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra˨˦/

Letter

ရ • (rǎ)

1. Ra, the 15th letter of the Shan alphabet.