မင်္ဂလာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali maṅgala, from Sanskrit मङ्गल (maṅgala, happiness). Cognate with Thai มงคล (mong-kon). Doublet of မင်္ဂလ (mangga.la.).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: မင်ဂ'လာ
  • IPA(key): /mɪ̀ɴɡəlà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: mangga.la • ALA-LC: maṅʻgalā • BGN/PCGN: min-găla • Okell: miñgăla

Noun

မင်္ဂလာ • (mangga.la)

  1. prosperity

Derived terms

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

မင်္ဂလာ (maṅgalā)

  1. Burmese script form of maṅgalā, which is inflection of မင်္ဂလ:
    1. ablative singular masculine/neuter
    2. nominative/vocative plural masculine
    3. nominative singular feminine
    4. nominative/vocative/accusative plural (maṅgala, auspicious)

Noun

မင်္ဂလာ (maṅgalā)

  1. Burmese script form of maṅgalā, which is ablative singular of မင်္ဂလ (maṅgala, blessing)