ယ
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Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja̰/
Audio: (file)
Letter
ယ • (ya.)
- Ya, the 27th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
- symbol for ellipsis
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ယ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɛ̤ʔ/
Audio: (file)
Letter
ယ (ya)
- Ya, the twenty-sixth consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Noun
ယ (ya)
- tar, pitch.
- resin of resinous wood, used in caulking, tar, pitch, tar substitute prepared by mixing wax of dammar bee with petrol or wood-iol, is used as a substitute for pitch.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Pronoun
ယ m
- Burmese script form of ya (“who (relative)”)
Declension
Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ယော (yo) | ယေ (ye) |
| Accusative (second) | ယံ (yaṃ) | ယေ (ye) |
| Instrumental (third) | ယေန (yena) | ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ယဿ (yassa) | ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā) | ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ယဿ (yassa) | ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi) | ယေသု (yesu) |
Pronoun
ယ n
- Burmese script form of ya (“which (relative)”)
Usage notes
The case form ယဒ် (yad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the asat and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.
Declension
Declension table of "ယ" (neuter)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad) | ယာနိ (yāni) |
| Accusative (second) | ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad) | ယာနိ (yāni) |
| Instrumental (third) | ယေန (yena) | ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ယဿ (yassa) | ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā) | ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ယဿ (yassa) | ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi) | ယေသု (yesu) |
Noun
ယ m
- the Pali letter 'y'
Declension
Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ယော (yo) |
| Accusative (second) | ယံ (yaṃ) |
| Instrumental (third) | ယေန (yena) |
| Dative (fourth) | ယဿ (yassa) or ယာယ (yāya) or ယတ္ထံ (yatthaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā) or ယာ (yā) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ယဿ (yassa) |
| Locative (seventh) | ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi) or ယေ (ye) |
| Vocative (calling) | ယ (ya) |
S'gaw Karen
Etymology 1
Letter
ယ • (ya)
- Ya, the 18th letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called ယာ်အီၤထီ (yạ ʼaw̄ hṭaw) in S'gaw Karen.
Etymology 2
Contracted form of ယၤ (yā, “I, me”).
Pronoun
ယ • (ya)
- Verb prefix indicating the first person: I
- Noun prefix indicating the first person possessive: my
Western Pwo
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jaʔ/
Letter
ယ (transliteration needed)
- The 19th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ယၭ in Western Pwo.
Etymology 2
Cognate with S'gaw Karen ယ (ya), Eastern Pwo ယ်ု (jə).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jə/
Pronoun
ယ (transliteration needed)
| personal pronoun | possessive pronoun |
possessive determiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
| first person |
singular | ယ | ယၧၩ | ယၥၭ | ယဆၧ | ယ | |
| plural | ပ | ပၧၩ | ပၥၭ | ပဆၧ | ပ | ||
| second person |
singular | န | နၧၩ | နၥၭ | နဆၧ | န | |
| plural | နၥံၪ | နၥံၪ | နၥံၪအၥၭ | နဆၧ | နၥံၪ | ||
| third person |
singular | အဝ့ၫ | အဝ့ၫ | အဝ့ၫအၥၭ | အဝ့ၫဆၧ | အဝ့ၫအ | |
| plural | အဝ့ၫၥံၪ | အဝ့ၫၥံၪ | အဝ့ၫၥံၪအၥၭ | အဝ့ၫၥံၪဆၧ | အဝ့ၫၥံၪအ | ||