ရှာ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hra • ALA-LC: rhā • BGN/PCGN: sha • Okell: hya
  • Homophone: လျှာ (hlya)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s/g-(y/r)a (“to seek, search, look for”), with no certain cognates outside of Lolo-Burmese (STEDT) except for Proto-Naish *sra (Li, 2025). Luce adduces Old Chinese 搜 (OC *sru, “to seek, look for”) as a cognate, which appears reasonable given the semantics and Old Chinese reconstruction.[1]

Despite similar modern pronunciations, almost certainly unrelated to Korean 찾 (chat, “to find”).

Verb

ရှာ • (hra)

  1. to seek, search,[2] find, look for
    ငါ့ မျက်မှန်ကို ရှာပေး!
    nga. myakhmankui hrape:!
    Look for my glasses!
Derived terms
  • ကိုယ်ကျိုးရှာ (kuiykyui:hra)
  • ခေါက်ရှာငှက် (hkaukhrahngak)
  • စီးပွားရှာ (ci:pwa:hra)
  • ဒုက္ခမရှာပါနှင့် (dukhka.ma.hrapahnang.)
  • ဒုက္ခရှာ (dukhka.hra)
  • ဒုက္ခရှာလို့ (dukhka.hralui.)
  • နေရာရှာ (nerahra)
  • ပေါက်ပေါက်ရှာရှာ (paukpaukhrahra)
  • ရန်ရှာ (ranhra)
  • ရှာကြံ (hra-kram)
  • ရှာစား (hraca:)
  • ရှာပုံတော် (hrapumtau)
  • ရှာဖွေ (hrahpwe)
  • ရှာဖွေရေး (hrahpwere:)
  • ရှာမှရှား (hrahma.hra:)
  • ရှာမှီး (hrahmi:)
  • ရှာရှာဖွေဖွေ (hrahrahpwehpwe)
  • အကြောင်းရှာ (a.kraung:hra)
  • အကွက်ရှာ (a.kwakhra)
  • အချက်ရှာ (a.hkyakhra)
  • အငိုရှာ (a.nguihra)
  • အပြစ်ရှာ (a.prachra)
  • အပူရှာ (a.puhra)
  • အပေါက်အစရှာ (a.pauk-a.ca.hra)
  • အမှုမရှာပါနှင့် (a.hmu.ma.hrapahnang.)
  • အမှုရှာ (a.hmu.hra)

Etymology 2

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

Particle

ရှာ • (hra)

  1. word affixed to a verb to denote affection or sympathy
Derived terms
  • ရွံရှာ (rwamhra)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-A Finals (96. to Seek, Search [Woodpecker])”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 6
  2. ^ "ရှာ" in KML DICTIONARY. Retrieved 1st December 2019.

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