Burmese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Pali rāsi (quantity, heap), from Sanskrit राशि (rāśi).

Pronunciation

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  • Phonetic respelling: ရာ+သီ
  • IPA(key): /jàðì/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: rasi • ALA-LC: rāsī • BGN/PCGN: yadhi • Okell: yathi

Noun

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ရာသီ (rasi)

  1. any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac
  2. season
  3. menses
  4. (poetic, figurative) month
  5. (elegant, poetic) one of six seasons recognised in Pali scholarship

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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See also

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Seasons in Burmese · ရာသီ (rasi) (layout · text) · category
နွေဦး (nweu:, spring) ဝသန္တ (wa.santa., spring) နွေ (nwe, summer) ဂိမှာန် (gi.hman, summer) ဆောင်းဦး (hcaung:u:, autumn) ဆောင်း (hcaung:, winter) ဟေမန္တ (hemanta., winter)

References

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  • ရာသီ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 841.
  • ရာသီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.