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TranslingualEdit
LetterEdit
ဝ
- Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
BurmeseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /wa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: wa. • ALA-LC: va • BGN/PCGN: wa. • Okell: wá
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Etymology 1Edit
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AdjectiveEdit
ဝ • (wa.)
- fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
- full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated
Derived termsEdit
- (fat): ဝဖီး (wa.hpi:)
Etymology 2Edit
Proper nounEdit
ဝ • (wa.)
- Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Min Nan 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).
PronounEdit
ဝ • (wa.)
- (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)
MonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *wa.
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
ဝ (wa)
- Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.
NounEdit
ဝ (wa)
- Wa, Lawa, pagan hill man practising slash-and-burn cultivation, a race of northern Burma and Siam formerly noted head hunters. They are closed by Mon writers, with the Karens as a people of more rudimentary culture, name of one of the Mon-Khmer language and its speakers found mainly in areas east of the Salween river in the Shan State.
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
EtymologyEdit
From iva.
ParticleEdit
ဝ
- Burmese script form of va (“like, as if”)
ShanEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ဝ • (wǎ)
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