ဘာသာ
See also: ᨽᩣᩈᩣ
Burmese
Etymology
Borrowed from Pali bhāsā, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā). The Burmese meaning of the term was extended to refer to religion or religious affiliation in the mid-1800s during British rule.
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ဘာ+သာ
- IPA(key): /bàðà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: bhasa • ALA-LC: bhāsā • BGN/PCGN: badha • Okell: batha
Noun
ဘာသာ • (bhasa) (classifier ခု or ရပ်)
- language (system of communication using words or symbols)
- religion
- custom
- subject (of academic studies)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- ကိုးကွယ်ဘာသာ (kui:kwaibhasa)
- ကိုယ့်ဘာသာ (kuiy.bhasa)
- ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ (buddha.bhasa)
- ဘာသာခြား (bhasahkra:)
- ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)
- ဘာသာတရား (bhasata.ra:)
- ဘာသာဓလေ့ (bhasadha.le.)
- ဘာသာပြန် (bhasa-pran)
- ဘာသာဗေဒ (bhasabeda.)
- ဘာသာဘာဝ (bhasabhawa.)
- ဘာသာရပ် (bhasarap)
- ဘာသာလဝါ (bhasala.wa)
- မသိလိုက်မသိဘာသာ (ma.si.luikma.si.bhasa)
- ရုံးသုံးဘာသာ (rum:sum:bhasa)
- အယူဘာသာ (a.yubhasa)
- အလျောက်ဘာသာ (a.lyaukbhasa)
- အလိုက်ဘာသာ (a.luikbhasa)
- ဧကဝဏ္ဏဘာသာ (eka.wanna.bhasa)
Adverb
ဘာသာ • (bhasa)
- (leaving something or someone) alone, by itself, on one's own accord
- ကိုယ့်ဘာသာကိုယ် ထမင်းချက်တယ်။ ― kuiy.bhasakuiy hta.mang:hkyaktai|| ― I cooked a meal by myself.
Usage notes
The adverbial "self" sense is often shortened colloquially to ဟာ (ha). This word is used to denote "by oneself", as opposed to "to or towards oneself"; for the latter, use ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body; I, me”), as in သူ့ကိုယ်သူ (su.kuiysu, “to himself; to herself”).
Further reading
- “ဘာသာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- Michel Picard (11 August 2017) The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN
Mon
Etymology
Borrowed from Pali bhāsā, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ဘာသာ (bhāsā)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 1110
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c[2], Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 102
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Noun
ဘာသာ f
- Burmese script form of bhāsā (“language”)
Declension
Declension table of "ဘာသာ" (feminine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ဘာသာ (bhāsā) | ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā) |
| Accusative (second) | ဘာသံ (bhāsaṃ) | ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā) |
| Instrumental (third) | ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) | ဘာသာဟိ (bhāsāhi) or ဘာသာဘိ (bhāsābhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) | ဘာသာနံ (bhāsānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) | ဘာသာဟိ (bhāsāhi) or ဘာသာဘိ (bhāsābhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) | ဘာသာနံ (bhāsānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) or ဘာသာယံ (bhāsāyaṃ) | ဘာသာသု (bhāsāsu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ဘာသေ (bhāse) | ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā) |