ကင်မရာ

Burmese

ကင်မရာ

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber, vault”).

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ကင်မ'*ရာ

IPA^(key): /kɪ̀ɴməɹà/

Romanization: MLCTS: kangma.ra • ALA-LC: kaṅʻmarā • BGN/PCGN: kinmăra • Okell: kiñmăra

Noun

ကင်မရာ • (kangma.ra) (classifier လုံး)

camera (device for taking photographs)

References

“ကင်မရာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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