နောင်

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nàʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: naung • ALA-LC: noṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: naung • Okell: nauñ

Etymology 1

Adjective

နောင် • (naung)

  1. (literary) next (day, year, etc.)
Usage notes

Burmese is a diglossic language. This construct is used exclusively in the formal, literary (written) register. See synonyms for the informal, colloquial (spoken) equivalent form(s).

Synonyms

Noun

နောင် • (naung)

  1. a word indicating the future: in the future, later, afterwards
Derived terms
  • နောက်နောင် (nauknaung)
  • နောင်ကြဉ် (naungkrany)
  • နောင်ကြဉ်အောင်လုပ် (naungkrany-aunglup)
  • နောင်ခါလာနောင်ခါဈေး (naunghkalanaunghkajhe:)
  • နောင်တ (naungta.)
  • နောင်ဘဝ (naungbha.wa.)
  • နောင်ရေး (naung-re:)
  • နောင်လာနောက်သား (naunglanauksa:)

Etymology 2

Noun

နောင် • (naung)

  1. (dated, regional, poetic) elder brother of a male (primarily used in compound words)
Usage notes

The term has largely been displaced by အစ်ကို (ackui), which in pre-colonial times referenced the elder brother of a female.

Derived terms
  • ကြေးနောင် (kre:naung)
  • ညီနောင် (nyinaung)
  • တူသားနောင်မယ် (tusa:naungmai)
  • နောင်ကြီး (naungkri:)
  • နောင်တော် (naungtau)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (46. Future; Later, hereafter; Last)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 86
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (45. Brother)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 86

Further reading

Tavoyan

Noun

နောင် (transliteration needed)

  1. (honorific) Form of address for younger men
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