ကစား

Burmese

Etymology

MED treats the term as an atomic unit, and STEDT gives no etymology (kacā: "play (a game)"). Luce suggests a connection to Old Chinese 戲 (OC *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː, “to play, tease”),^[1] which seems highly speculative and not particularly likely based on phonetics. Alternatively, the first syllable appears to be က (ka., “to dance”), while the second syllable may be စား (ca:) in the sense of "to match", or perhaps in the sense of "to exceed; emphatic particle".

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဂ'ဇား
IPA^(key): /ɡəzá/
Romanization: MLCTS: ka.ca: • ALA-LC: kacāʺ • BGN/PCGN: găza: • Okell: kăsà

Verb

ကစား • (ka.ca:)

to play or take part in sports or games (such as football, volleyball, etc.)
to gamble (in a game of chance)
to tease
(of mind, position, etc.) to be unstable, to make it unstable, to have some amount of play
to speculate

Derived terms

ကစားကွက် (ka.ca:kwak)
ကစားကွင်း (ka.ca:kwang:)
ကစားခုန်စား (ka.ca:hkunca:)
ကစားစရာ (ka.ca:ca.ra)
ကစားဒိုင် (ka.ca:duing)
ကစားဖော် (ka.ca:hpau)
ကစားဝိုင်း (ka.ca:wuing:)
ကစားသမား (ka.ca:sa.ma:)
ကျွန်းဆွယ်အားကစားပွဲ (kywan:hcwaia:ka.ca:pwai:)
စစ်ကစား (cacka.ca:)
စိတ်ကစား (citka.ca:)
ဈေးကစား (jhe:ka.ca:)
ဉာဏ်ကစား (nyanka.ca:)
တောကစား (tau:ka.ca:)
မယ်တော်အီကစားနည်း (maitauika.ca:nany:)
မျက်စိကစား (myakci.ka.ca:)
ရွှေစွန်ညိုကစားနည်း (hrwecwannyuika.ca:nany:)
ရေကစား (reka.ca:)
လင့်ကစား (lang.ka.ca:)
လောင်းကစား (laung:ka.ca:)
အကစား (a.ka.ca:)
အလောင်းကစား (a.laung:ka.ca:)
အားကစား (a:ka.ca:)

References

^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (38. to Play; Sport)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 3