Akyab

English

The 19th-century reconstruction of Akyab's eponymous pagoda (1891)

Etymology

From the Rakhine name of a former shrine supposedly holding the rear part of the Buddha's jawbone (formerly romanized Akyattaw) and its ridge overlooking the former British port town (Akyatkundaw).

Proper noun

Akyab

1. Former name of Sittwe (“city in Myanmar”).

References

• Emanuel Forchhammer, "Arakan" (1891), p. 59.