ရော်

• IPA^(key): /jɔ̀/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rau • ALA-LC: roʻ • BGN/PCGN: yaw • Okell: yo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ro "scream, as a fowl"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

ရော် • (rau)

1. (of fowl) to call or cry
2. to look expectantly, long for, yearn

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-raw (“withered, residue, corpse”). Cognate with Tibetan རོ (ro, “corpse”), Old Chinese 老 (OC *ruːʔ, “old”) (STEDT).

ရော် • (rau)

1. to wither
2. to become overripe
3. to become old, age

• “ရော်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.