စ
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Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ca. • ALA-LC: ca • BGN/PCGN: sa. • Okell: sá
Audio: (file)
Etymology 1
Letter
စ • (ca.)
- Ca, the 6th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Derived terms
- ကျောက်စရစ် (kyaukca.rac)
- ကိုယ်စွမ်းကိုယ်စ (kuiycwam:kuiyca.)
- ခြေစလက်စ (hkreca.lakca.)
- ခြောက်စထောင်လှည်း (hkraukca.htaunghlany:)
- ငွေစ (ngweca.)
- ငွေစရွှင် (ngweca.hrwang)
- စာတိုပေစ (catuipeca.)
- ဆံစ (hcamca.)
- ဉာဏ်စွမ်းဉာဏ်စ (nyancwam:nyanca.)
- နှုတ်စလျှာစ (hnutca.hlyaca.)
- ပစ်စလက်ခတ် (pacca.lakhkat)
- ပြုံးစနဲ့နဲ့ (prum:ca.nai.nai.)
- ပုံတိုပတ်စ (pumtuipatca.)
- ပဲစိမ်းစားဥ (pai:cim:ca:u.)
- ဖားဥစွဲ (hpa:u.cwai:)
- မစ (ma.ca.)
- မျက်စပစ် (myakca.pac)
- မျက်စမျက်န (myakca.myakna.)
- မြစ်လိုက်ဥ (mracluik-u.)
- မီးစ (mi:ca.)
- မီးစတစ်ဖက်ရေမှုတ်တစ်ဖက် (mi:ca.tachpak-rehmuttachpak)
- ရွှေတိုငွေစ (hrwetui-ngweca.)
- လက်စလက်န (lakca.lakna.)
- လမ်းဘေးစကြံ (lam:bhe:ca.kram)
- လိပ်စရွေ (lipca.rwe)
- လူစလူန (luca.luna.)
- လူစွမ်းလူစ (lucwam:luca.)
- လူရည်လူစ (luranyluca.)
- သံတိုသံစ (samtuisamca.)
- အင်စ (angca.)
- အစစ (a.ca.ca.)
- အစစအရာရာ (a.ca.ca.a.rara)
Etymology 2
According to Schuessler, related to Old Chinese 之 (OC *tjɯ, “to go, proceed”). An earlier derivation by Luce connects the word to Old Chinese 始 (OC *hljɯʔ, “to begin, start”), 初 (OC *sʰra, “initial, first”).[1]
Verb
စ • (ca.)
Derived terms
- ကြင်စဦး (krangca.u:)
- ကွင်းစ (kwang:ca.)
- ခါးပုံစ (hka:pumca.)
- စကားစ (ca.ka:ca.)
- စတင် (ca.tang)
- စတင် (ca.tang, verb)
- စသည် (ca.sany)
- စဦးစွာ (ca.u:cwa, adverb)
- ညားခါစလင်မယား (nya:hkaca.langma.ya:)
- တက်သစ်စ (taksacca.)
- တစ်လက်စတည်း (taclakca.tany:)
- ပြောစဆိုစ (prau:ca.hcuica.)
- ပြောစမှတ် (prau:ca.hmat)
- ပွင့်သစ်စ (pwang.sacca.)
- ပေါက်စ (paukca.)
- မွေးကင်းစ (mwe:kang:ca.)
- မွေးသစ်စ (mwe:sacca.)
- မိုက်စတုံး (muikca.tum:)
- ရန်စ (ranca.)
- လက်ငုတ်လက်စ (lakngutlakca.)
- လက်စ (lakca.)
- လက်စကြွင်း (lakca.krwang:)
- လက်စကြီး (lakca.kri:)
- လက်စတုံး (lakca.tum:)
- လက်စဖျောက် (lakca.hpyauk)
- လက်စသတ် (lakca.sat)
- လက်စသတ်တော့ (lakca.sattau.)
- လက်စသိမ်း (lakca.sim:)
- လမ်းစ (lam:ca.)
- သဲလွန်စ (sai:lwanca.)
- အစ (a.ca., noun)
- အာစရွှင် (aca.hrwang)
- အာစလျှာစ (aca.hlyaca.)
- ဦးသစ်စ (u:sacca.)
Descendants
- → Mon: စ (ca /caʔ/)
Etymology 3
Verb
စ • (ca.)
Derived terms
- စကားပေါက်စကားစ (ca.ka:paukca.ka:ca.)
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Particle
စ • (ca.)
- euphonic or emphatic particle combined with verbs
- synonym of စံ့ (cam., “interrogative verbal particle”)
Derived terms
- ချစ်စနိုး (hkyacca.nui:)
- စုပ်စမြုပ်စ (cupca.mrupca.)
- ယဉ်စစ (yanyca.ca.)
- ရာရာစစ (raraca.ca.)
- လက်လွတ်စပယ် (laklwatca.pai)
- ဟုတ်စ (hutca.)
- အလျင်စလို (a.lyangca.lui)
- အိုစနာ (uica.na)
Etymology 5
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Particle
စ • (ca.)
- word suffixed to a noun to indicate the smallness of amount involved
Derived terms
- တစ်စတစ်စ (tacca.tacca.)
- တစ်စွန်းတစ်စ (taccwan:tacca.)
- တစ်ပိုင်းတစ်စ (tacpuing:tacca.)
- ဖြတ်စ (hpratca.)
- မဆိုစလောက် (ma.hcuica.lauk)
- မဖြစ်စလောက် (ma.hpracca.lauk)
- အစ (a.ca.)
References
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A finals (32. to Begin; Beginning)”, 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
- “စ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- “စ, 1; စ, 2” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 340.
Mon
Etymology 1
From Old Mon စ (caʔ),[1] from Proto-Mon-Khmer *caʔ (“to eat”). Cognate with Nyah Kur จาʔ, Khmer ស៊ី (sii).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɕiəʔ/
- Note: This pronunciation was developed from Middle Mon in a phonetically irregular manner.[2]
- (Myanmar) IPA(key): /cɛʔ/
- (Thailand) IPA(key): /ceaʔ/[3]
Audio: (file)
Letter
စ (ca)
- Ca, the sixth consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Verb
စ (ca)
- to eat.[4]
- to live on, to live (by the revenues of something)
- to divide (in arithmetic).
- to take (in chess and other games)
- {usually as va.} to begin, start {to}, do for the first time.
- to eat, to live on, by, by the revenues of, govern, to devide {in arithmetic}, to take, in chess and other games, wear away, erode.
Adverb
စ (ca)
- particle denoting generic or habitual aspect.
Derived terms
(Verbs)
- (causative) ဗ္စ (baca)
(Nouns)
- သွ (swa)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Burmese စ (ca.).[2]
Pronunciation
Verb
စ (ca)
References
- ^ Jenny, Mathias (2001). A Short Introduction to the Mon Language.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, , →ISBN, page 199
- ^ Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies[1], volume 26, page 416
- ^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 57
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Particle
စ
- Burmese script form of ca (“and”)
S'gaw Karen
Letter
စ • (sa)
- Ca, the sixth letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called စးတဖျၢၣ် (sä ta hpluh̀) in S'gaw Karen.
Western Pwo
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saʔ/
Letter
စ (transliteration needed)
- The 6th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called စၭ in Western Pwo.
Etymology 2
Cognate with S'gaw Karen စီၤ (saw̄), Eastern Pwo စဝ် (cɔ̀).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə/
Particle
စ (transliteration needed)
Coordinate terms
- မၩ့ (for older men)
- နး (for younger women)
- ဂါ (for older women)