U+1018, ဘ
MYANMAR LETTER BHA

[U+1017]
Myanmar
[U+1019]

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: bha. • ALA-LC: bha • BGN/PCGN: ba. • Okell:
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

Letter

• (bha.)

  1. Bha, the 25th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Derived terms
  • ဘကုန်း (bha.kun:)
  • ရောဂါဘယ (rau:gabha.ya.)
  • လာဘ်လာဘ (labhlabha.)
  • အတွင်းဘဝေါ (a.twang:bha.wau:)
  • အပြင်ဘဝေါ (a.prangbha.wau:)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *pʷa (man, father, husband, person); cognate with Old Chinese (OC *pa, *ba, “husband, man”) (STEDT). Doublet of (hpa.).

Noun

• (bha.)

  1. father
Derived terms
  • ဘကြီး (bha.kri:)
  • ဘခင် (bha.hkang)
  • ဘတစ်ပြန်ကျားတစ်ပြန် (bha.tacprankya:tacpran)
  • ဘထွေး (bha.htwe:)
  • ဘဘ (bha.bha.)
  • ဘဘကြီး (bha.bha.kri:)
  • ဘသားချော (bha.sa:hkyau:)
  • ဘိုးဘပိုင်ပစ္စည်း (bhui:bha.puingpaccany:)
  • ဘိုးဘပိုင်မြေ (bhui:bha.puingmre)
  • မိဘ (mi.bha.)
  • မိဘမောင်ဖား (mi.bha.maunghpa:)
  • မိဘမဲ့ (mi.bha.mai.)
  • မောင်မောင်ဘဘလုပ် (maungmaungbha.bha.lup)
  • ယောက်ျားဘသား
  • လူကြီးမိဘ (lu-kri:mi.bha.)
  • အဘ (a.bha.​)
See also

Particle

• (bha.)

  1. (honorific) title prefixed to a male's given name

Further reading

Mon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰɛ̤ʔ/
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

(bha)

  1. Bha, the twenty-fourth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Verb

(bha)

  1. to frighten, to scare.
  2. to frighten, {perform actions calculated to} scare, to make afraid.

Derived terms

  • ဘပၠ (phɛ̀ʔ pəlaʔ)

S'gaw Karen

Letter

• (ba)

  1. Bha, the 16th letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called ဘါမကူ (bah ma koo) in S'gaw Karen.

Western Pwo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɓaʔ/

Letter

(transliteration needed)

  1. The 17th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ဘၭ in Western Pwo.