သန္တာ

Burmese

Etymology

According to MED, borrowed from Pali santānaka (a spreading object), from santāna (spreading, tendril) +‎ -ka; see Sanskrit संतान (saṃtāna, continuity) for more.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: သန်ဒါ
  • IPA(key): /θàɴdà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: santa • ALA-LC: santā • BGN/PCGN: thanda • Okell: thañda

Noun

သန္တာ • (santa)

  1. (mineralogy) coral

Derived terms

  • ကျွမ်းသန္တာလန် (kywam:santalan)
  • ကျေးသန္တာ (kye:santa)
  • သန္တာခဲ (santahkai:)
  • သန္တာစေ့ (santace.)
  • သန္တာပြန် (santa-pran)
  • သန္တာလန် (santalan)

Descendants

  • Shan: ၸၼ်ႇတႃႇ (tsàn tàa)

Proper noun

သန္တာ • (santa)

  1. a female given name from Pali

Further reading