ဝေဿ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali vessa, from Sanskrit वैश्य (vaiśya).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဝစ်သ
• IPA^(key): /wɪʔθa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: wessa. • ALA-LC: vessa • BGN/PCGN: wittha. • Okell: wiʔthá

Noun

ဝေဿ • (wessa.)

1. (historical, literary) The third class of traditional Burmese society, comprising merchants (Vaishyas), one of the four social classes known as အမျိုးလေးပါး (a.myui:le:pa:)

Synonyms

• သူဌေးမျိုး (suhte:myui:)

References

• “ဝေဿ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• vessa (Latin script)
• 𑀯𑁂𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• वेस्स (Devanagari script)
• ৰেস্স (Bengali script)
• වෙස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• ဝေသ်သ (Burmese script)
• เวสฺส or เวสสะ (Thai script)
• ᩅᩮᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ເວສ຺ສ or ເວສສະ (Lao script)
• វេស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄬𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဝေဿ m

1. Burmese script form of vessa (“a Vaishya”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဝေဿ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဝေဿော (vesso)	ဝေဿာ (vessā)
Accusative (second)	ဝေဿံ (vessaṃ)	ဝေဿေ (vesse)
Instrumental (third)	ဝေဿေန (vessena)	ဝေဿေဟိ (vessehi) or ဝေဿေဘိ (vessebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဝေဿဿ (vessassa) or ဝေဿာယ (vessāya) or ဝေဿတ္ထံ (vessatthaṃ)	ဝေဿာနံ (vessānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဝေဿသ္မာ (vessasmā) or ဝေဿမှာ (vessamhā) or ဝေဿာ (vessā)	ဝေဿေဟိ (vessehi) or ဝေဿေဘိ (vessebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဝေဿဿ (vessassa)	ဝေဿာနံ (vessānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဝေဿသ္မိံ (vessasmiṃ) or ဝေဿမှိ (vessamhi) or ဝေဿေ (vesse)	ဝေဿေသု (vessesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဝေဿ (vessa)	ဝေဿာ (vessā)