ခ
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Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka. • ALA-LC: kha • BGN/PCGN: hka. • Okell: hká
Audio: (file)
Usage notes
- When followed by ျ and ြ, forms digraphs ချ and ခြ, pronounced /t͡ɕʰ/ (in unvoiced positions) or /d͡ʑ/ when voiced.
Etymology 1
Letter
ခ • (hka.)
- Kha, the second letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ခကွေး (hka.kwe:) in Burmese.
Derived terms
- ကွန်ခနောက် (kwanhka.nauk)
- ကူးတို့ခ (ku:tui.hka.)
- ခခွေး (hka.hkwe:)
- ခရီးခတင်း (hka.ri:hka.tang:)
- စာမူခ (camuhka.)
- ဆေးဖိုးဝါးခ (hce:hpui:wa:hka.)
- ဉာဏ်ပူဇော်ခ (nyanpujauhka.)
- ထန်းခလက်တဲ (htan:hka.laktai:)
- နှုတ်ပိတ်ခ (hnutpithka.)
- ပွဲခ (pwai:hka.)
- ဖိုခနောက် (hpuihka.nauk)
- ဖိုခနောက်ဆိုင် (hpuihka.naukhcuing)
- ရုံဝင်ခ (rum-wanghka.)
- လက်ခ (lakhka.)
- လက်ခမောင်းခတ် (lakhka.maung:hkat)
- လခ (la.hka.)
- လယ်ထောက်ခ (laihtaukhka.)
- လုပ်ခ (luphka.)
- ဝန်ဆောင်ခ (wanhcaunghka.)
- ဝန်တင်ခ (wantanghka.)
- သီးစားခ (si:ca:hka.)
Etymology 2
Verb
ခ • (hka.)
- to wait upon, attend on
- to be subservient to, be obsequious to or toward
- to strike
- to fall (to the ground)
- to catch fire
- to meet, encounter
Derived terms
- ခခယယ (hka.hka.ya.ya.)
- ခစား (hka.ca:)
- ခညောင်း (hka.nyaung:)
- ခယ (hka.ya.)
- ခယမ်း (hka.yam:)
- ခယဝယ (hka.ya.wa.ya.)
- မင်းခစား (mang:hka.ca:)
- မင်းခယောက်ျား
- မိုးမခ (mui:ma.hka.)
- မီးခ (mi:hka.)
- ရေခမိုး (rehka.mui:)
- ရေခမိုးတင် (rehka.mui:tang)
References
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (19. Pay; Hire; Wages; to Serve ('eat wages')”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 2
Further reading
- “ခ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰaʔ/
Audio: (file)
Letter
ခ (kha)
- Kha, the 2nd letter of the Mon alphabet.
Verb
ခ (kha)
- to be dependent
S'gaw Karen
Letter
ခ • (kha)
- Kha, the second letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called ခးကဝီၤ (khä ka waw̄) in S'gaw Karen.
Western Pwo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰaʔ/
Usage notes
- When followed by ၠ, forms digraphs ခၠ, pronounced /tɕʰ/ .
Letter
ခ (transliteration needed)
- Kha, the second letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ခၭ in Western Pwo.