See also: , ဝမ်း, ဝံ, ဝႆ, 𑄤, and 𑼮

U+101D, ဝ
MYANMAR LETTER WA

[U+101C]
Myanmar
[U+101E]

Translingual

Letter

  1. (A letter of the Mon-Burmese script, commonly transliterated wa; present in most alphabets of Burma.)

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: wa. • ALA-LC: va • BGN/PCGN: wa. • Okell:
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

Letter

• (wa.)

  1. Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Etymology 2

Adjective

• (wa.)

  1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body), obese, plump
  2. full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated

Verb

• (wa.)

  1. to be satisfied

Derived terms

  • ကျည်ဝ (kyanywa.)
  • ကျိန်စာဝ (kyincawa.)
  • ကြွယ်ဝ (krwaiwa.)
  • ကြားဖူးနားဝ (kra:hpu:na:wa.)
  • ကြိုးဝက (krui:wa.ka.)
  • ခယဝယ (hka.ya.wa.ya.)
  • ဇာတ်ရည်ဝ (jatranywa.)
  • တစ်လုံးတစ်ဝတည်း (taclum:tac-wa.tany:)
  • တစ်ဝ (tac-wa.)
  • တော်လေးဝ (taule:wa.)
  • ထိပ်ဝ (htip-wa.)
  • ထောင်ဘူးဝ (htaungbhu:wa.)
  • နှစ်စီးနှစ်ဝ (hnacci:hnac-wa.)
  • နားရည်ဝ (na:ranywa.)
  • ပင်လယ်ဝ (panglaiwa.)
  • ပြည့်ဝ (prany.wa.)
  • ပြောင်းဝ (praung:wa.)
  • ဖိုးဝရုပ် (hpui:wa.rup)
  • မျက်စိရည်နားရည်ဝ (myakci.ranyna:ranywa.)
  • မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ် (mrac-wa.kywan:pau)
  • မဝရေစာ (ma.wa.reca)
  • မိုးလေဝသပညာ (mui:lewa.sa.pa.nya)
  • မုခ်ဝ (muhk-wa.)
  • ရင်ဝ (rang-wa.)
  • လုံးဝ (lum:wa.)
  • လုပ်ရည်ဝ (lup-ranywa.)
  • လူပါးဝ (lupa:wa.)
  • လူရည်ဝ (luranywa.)
  • လူဝါးဝ (luwa:wa.)
  • ဝကျောက်ဝကန် (wa.kyauk-wa.kan)
  • ဝကွက် (wa.kwak)
  • ဝကွက်ချန် (wa.kwakhkyan)
  • ဝကွက်အပ် (wa.kwak-ap)
  • ဝဆွဲ (wa.hcwai:)
  • ဝတုတ် (wa.tut)
  • ဝပြော (wa.prau:)
  • ဝဖြိုး (wa.hprui:)
  • ဝဖီး (wa.hpi:)
  • ဝမ်းဝ (wam:wa.)
  • ဝလင် (wa.lang)
  • ဝလုံး (wa.lum:)
  • သာယာဝပြော (sayawa.prau:)
  • သေဝနီးပါး (sewa.ni:pa:)
  • အပါးဝ (a.pa:wa.)
  • အပေါက်ဝ (a.pauk-wa.)
  • အရည်ဝ (a.ranywa.)
  • အဝင်ဝ (a.wang-wa.)
  • အိပ်ရေးဝ (ip-re:wa.)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Parauk Va ().

Proper noun

• (wa.)

  1. Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)
Descendants
  • English: Wa
  • Shan: ဝႃႉ (wâ̰a)

Etymology 4

According to Hill 2019, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-rwa (taro, yam, tuber); see Old Chinese (OC *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas, “taro”) for more.

Noun

• (wa.)

  1. elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus campanulata)
Derived terms
  • ဝဥ (wa.u.)

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Hokkien (óa, I; me). Doublet of ငါ (nga).

Pronoun

• (wa.)

  1. (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-WA Finals (138. Satisfied; Fat)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 8

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *wa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɛ̤ʔ/
  • Audio:(file)

Letter

(wa)

  1. Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

(wa)

  1. Wa, Lawa, pagan hill man practising slash-and-burn cultivation, a race of northern Burma and Siam formerly noted head hunters. They are closed by Mon writers, with the Karens as a people of more rudimentary culture, name of one of the Mon-Khmer language and its speakers found mainly in areas east of the Salween river in the Shan State.

Pali

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Particle

  1. Burmese script form of va (like, as if)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Particle

  1. Burmese script form of va, sandhi form of ဧဝ / ဨဝ / ဢေဝ (eva, even)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

Noun

 m

  1. Burmese script form of va (letter 'v')
Declension

S'gaw Karen

Letter

• (wa)

  1. Wa, the 21st letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called ဝးကဝီၤ (wä ka waw̄) in S'gaw Karen.

Shan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa˨˦/

Noun

• ()

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Western Pwo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /waʔ/

Letter

(transliteration needed)

  1. The 22nd letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ဝၭ in Western Pwo.