သာဝက

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali sāvaka.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: သာဝ'က
• IPA^(key): /θàwəka̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: sawa.ka. • ALA-LC: sāvaka • BGN/PCGN: thawăka. • Okell: thawăká

Noun

သာဝက • (sawa.ka.)

1. (Buddhism) disciple (of the Buddha))

Derived terms

• မဟာသာဝက (ma.hasawa.ka.)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: သႃႇဝၵႃႉ (sàa wǎ kâ̰a)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• sāvaka (Latin script)
• 𑀲𑀸𑀯𑀓 (Brahmi script)
• सावक (Devanagari script)
• সাৰক (Bengali script)
• සාවක (Sinhalese script)
• သႃဝၵ (Burmese script)
• สาวก or สาวะกะ (Thai script)
• ᩈᩣᩅᨠ (Tai Tham script)
• ສາວກ or ສາວະກະ (Lao script)
• សាវក (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄂𑅇𑄇 (Chakma script)

Noun

သာဝက m

1. Burmese script form of sāvaka (“disciple”)

Declension

Declension table of "သာဝက" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	သာဝကော (sāvako)	သာဝကာ (sāvakā)
Accusative (second)	သာဝကံ (sāvakaṃ)	သာဝကေ (sāvake)
Instrumental (third)	သာဝကေန (sāvakena)	သာဝကေဟိ (sāvakehi) or သာဝကေဘိ (sāvakebhi)
Dative (fourth)	သာဝကဿ (sāvakassa) or သာဝကာယ (sāvakāya) or သာဝကတ္ထံ (sāvakatthaṃ)	သာဝကာနံ (sāvakānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	သာဝကသ္မာ (sāvakasmā) or သာဝကမှာ (sāvakamhā) or သာဝကာ (sāvakā)	သာဝကေဟိ (sāvakehi) or သာဝကေဘိ (sāvakebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	သာဝကဿ (sāvakassa)	သာဝကာနံ (sāvakānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	သာဝကသ္မိံ (sāvakasmiṃ) or သာဝကမှိ (sāvakamhi) or သာဝကေ (sāvake)	သာဝကေသု (sāvakesu)
Vocative (calling)	သာဝက (sāvaka)	သာဝကာ (sāvakā)