ဝိဇ္ဇာ
Burmese
Etymology
Borrowed from Pali vijjā. Cognate with Thai วิชา (wí-chaa), Lao ວິຊາ (wi sā), Khmer វិជ្ជា (vɨcciə), as well as, more distantly, English wizard.
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ဝိတ်ဇာ
- IPA(key): /weɪʔzà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: wijja • ALA-LC: vijjā • BGN/PCGN: weikza • Okell: weiʔza
Noun
ဝိဇ္ဇာ • (wijja)
- knowledge, wisdom, science
- a term for a person who is an expert in a particular branch of knowledge
- weizza, a person with supernatural powers
- first university degree in arts, a Bachelor of Arts
Derived terms
- မဟာဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (ma.hawijjabhwai.)
- ဝိဇ္ဇာဓိုရ် (wijjadhuir)
- ဝိဇ္ဇာပညာရပ် (wijjapa.nyarap)
- ဝိဇ္ဇာဘွဲ့ (wijjabhwai.)
- အဝိဇ္ဇာ (a.wijja)
Further reading
- “ဝိဇ္ဇာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Noun
ဝိဇ္ဇာ f
- Burmese script form of vijjā (“science”)
Declension
Declension table of "ဝိဇ္ဇာ" (feminine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ဝိဇ္ဇာ (vijjā) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယော (vijjāyo) or ဝိဇ္ဇာ (vijjā) |
| Accusative (second) | ဝိဇ္ဇံ (vijjaṃ) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယော (vijjāyo) or ဝိဇ္ဇာ (vijjā) |
| Instrumental (third) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယ (vijjāya) | ဝိဇ္ဇာဟိ (vijjāhi) or ဝိဇ္ဇာဘိ (vijjābhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယ (vijjāya) | ဝိဇ္ဇာနံ (vijjānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယ (vijjāya) | ဝိဇ္ဇာဟိ (vijjāhi) or ဝိဇ္ဇာဘိ (vijjābhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယ (vijjāya) | ဝိဇ္ဇာနံ (vijjānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယ (vijjāya) or ဝိဇ္ဇာယံ (vijjāyaṃ) | ဝိဇ္ဇာသု (vijjāsu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ဝိဇ္ဇေ (vijje) | ဝိဇ္ဇာယော (vijjāyo) or ဝိဇ္ဇာ (vijjā) |