အသတ်

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit असत् (asat, “non-existence”). Apparently also surface-analyzable as အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ သတ် (sat, “to kill”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa̰θaʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: a.sat • ALA-LC: ʼasatʻ • BGN/PCGN: a.that • Okell: áthaʔ

Noun

အသတ် • (a.sat)

  1. Name of the Burmese diacritic ်, which silences the inherent vowel of a consonant letter
  2. spelling

Derived terms

  • အကန့်အသတ် (a.kan.a.sat)
  • အပြတ်အသတ် (a.prat-a.sat)
  • အသတ်အလတ် (a.sat-a.lat)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.