က

See also: ကို, ကဲ့, ᨠ, and က္

က U+1000, က
MYANMAR LETTER KA
[unassigned: U+0FDB–U+0FFF]
← ࿚
[U+0FDA] 		Myanmar ခ →
[U+1001]

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
  • IPA(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká
  • Audio(file)

Usage notes
  • The voiced pronunciation /ɡa̰/ occurs in the conjunction, particle, and postposition only, and only after a vowel or /ɴ/.
  • When followed by ျ and ြ, forms digraphs ကျ and ကြ, pronounced /t͡ɕ/ (in unvoiced positions) or /d͡ʑ/ when voiced.

Letter

က • (ka.)

  1. Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.

Conjunction

က • (ka.)

  1. if
    မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Compare Korean 가 (-ga, “subject marker”).

Particle

က • (ka.)

  1. indicates the subject of the sentence, a topic marker
    သူက ဒီလို ပြောခဲ့တယ်
    suka. dilui prau:hkai.tai
    He said like this.

Postposition

က • (ka.)

  1. in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)
    ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year
  2. from (in reference to a place)
    တောင်ဘက်က ― taungbhakka. ― from the south
    ရန်ကုန်က ― rankunka. ― from Rangoon

Etymology 5

Cognate with Chinese 歌 (gē, “to sing”) and Tibetan གར (gar, “to dance”).

Verb

က • (ka.)

Burmese word set
Verb က (ka.)
Nounအက (a.ka.)
  1. to dance
Synonyms
  • ကခုန် (ka.hkun)

Etymology 6

Borrowed from Mon က.

Noun

က • (ka.)

  1. (only used in compounds) fish

References

Mon

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaʔ/
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1

An instance of Translingual က, ultimately descending from Brahmi 𑀓.

Letter

က (ka)

  1. Ka, the first consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).

Noun

က (ka)

  1. fish[1][2]
    ကအရံၚ် (kaʼaraṃṅ)

Noun

က (ka)

  1. howdah harness saddle.
  2. fulcrum, short prop[2]

Verb

က (ka)

  1. to be lacking.
  2. to fail.
    ရုံဟွံကပဵုသှာတ်အာဣရ။
    ruṃhwaṃkapeushātʼāʼira.
    There is enough and to spare.
    သြန်မသုန်စှော်ဟွံက။
    sranmasunchokhwaṃka.
    There is fifty rupees and more.

Verb

က (transliteration needed)

  1. to harness a horse or any draught animal.

References
  1. (Can we verify(+) this quotation?)พวน รามัญวงศ์ [Phuan Ramanyawong] (2005) พจนานุกรมมอญ-ไทย ฉบับมอญสยาม [Mon-Thai (Siamese) Dictionary], กรุงเทพฯ [Bangkok]: มติชน [Matichon], →ISBN
  2. R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary‎, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 28

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • ka (Latin script)
  • 𑀓 (Brahmi script)
  • क (Devanagari script)
  • ক (Bengali script)
  • ක (Sinhalese script)
  • ၵ (Burmese script)
  • ก or กะ (Thai script)
  • ᨠ (Tai Tham script)
  • ກ or ກະ (Lao script)
  • ក (Khmer script)
  • 𑄇 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

က m

  1. Burmese script form of ka (“who (m.)”)

Declension
Declension table of "က" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)ကော (ko)ကေ (ke)
Accusative (second)ကံ (kaṃ)ကေ (ke)
Instrumental (third)ကေန (kena)ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Dative (fourth)ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā)ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Genitive (sixth)ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi)ကေသု (kesu)

Pronoun

က n

  1. Burmese script form of ka (“what”)

Declension
Declension table of "က" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)ကိံ (kiṃ)ကာနိ (kāni)
Accusative (second)ကိံ (kiṃ)ကာနိ (kāni)
Instrumental (third)ကေန (kena)ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Dative (fourth)ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā)ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Genitive (sixth)ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi)ကေသု (kesu)
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