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Translingual
Letter
ဝ
- (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: wá
Audio: (file)
Etymology 1
Letter
ဝ • (wa.)
- Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Etymology 2
Adjective
ဝ • (wa.)
- fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body), obese, plump
- full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated
Verb
ဝ • (wa.)
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
Proper noun
ဝ • (wa.)
- Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)
Descendants
Etymology 4
According to Hill 2019, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-rwa (“taro, yam, tuber”); see Old Chinese 芋 (OC *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas, “taro”) for more.
Noun
ဝ • (wa.)
- elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus campanulata)
Derived terms
- ဝဥ (wa.u.)
Etymology 5
Borrowed from Hokkien 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).
Pronoun
ဝ • (wa.)
- (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)
References
- ^ 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
- “ဝ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *wa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛ̤ʔ/
Audio: (file)
Letter
ဝ (wa)
- Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Noun
ဝ (wa)
- 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
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
Particle
ဝ
- Burmese script form of va (“like, as if”)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- yeva (Latin script)
- 𑀬𑁂𑀯 (Brahmi script)
- येव (Devanagari script)
- যেৰ (Bengali script)
- යෙව (Sinhalese script)
- ယေဝ (Burmese script)
- เยว or เยวะ (Thai script)
- ᨿᩮᩅ (Tai Tham script)
- ເຍວ or ເຍວະ or ເຢວະ (Lao script)
- យេវ (Khmer script)
- 𑄠𑄬𑅇 (Chakma script)
Alternative scripts
- ñeva (Latin script)
- 𑀜𑁂𑀯 (Brahmi script)
- ञेव (Devanagari script)
- ঞেৰ (Bengali script)
- ඤෙව (Sinhalese script)
- ဉေဝ or ၺေဝ (Burmese script)
- เญว or เญวะ (Thai script)
- ᨬᩮᩅ (Tai Tham script)
- ເຎວ or ເຎວະ (Lao script)
- ញេវ (Khmer script)
- 𑄐𑄬𑅇 (Chakma script)
Particle
ဝ
Etymology 3
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Noun
ဝ m
- Burmese script form of va (“letter 'v'”)
Declension
Declension table of "ဝ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ဝေါ (vo) |
| Accusative (second) | ဝံ (vaṃ) |
| Instrumental (third) | ဝေန (vena) |
| Dative (fourth) | ဝဿ (vassa) or ဝါယ (vāya) or ဝတ္ထံ (vatthaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ဝသ္မာ (vasmā) or ဝမှာ (vamhā) or ဝါ (vā) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ဝဿ (vassa) |
| Locative (seventh) | ဝသ္မိံ (vasmiṃ) or ဝမှိ (vamhi) or ဝေ (ve) |
| Vocative (calling) | ဝ (va) |
S'gaw Karen
Letter
ဝ • (wa)
- 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
ဝ • (wǎ)
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Western Pwo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /waʔ/
Letter
ဝ (transliteration needed)
- The 22nd letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ဝၭ in Western Pwo.