ဓား
Burmese
ဓား (dha:)
Etymology
Stephen Baron posits Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ta-w as the ancestor of both this word (and hence English dah) and Chinese 刀 (dāo) (whence English dao).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dá/
- Romanization: MLCTS: dha: • ALA-LC: dhāʺ • BGN/PCGN: da: • Okell: dà
Derived terms
- ဓားဆောက် (dha:hcauk)
- ဓားနှီး (dha:hni:)
- ဓားနှောင့် (dha:hnaung.)
- ဓားပြား (dha:pra:)
- ဓားမ (dha:ma.)
- ဓားမင်း (dha:mang:)
- ဓားမဆေးကျ (dha:ma.hce:kya.)
- ဓားမနောက်ပိတ်ခွေး (dha:ma.naukpithkwe:)
- ဓားမောက် (dha:mauk)
- ဓားရိုး (dha:rui:)
- ဓားသားများ (dha:sa:mya:)
- ဓားအိမ် (dha:im)
- မောင်းချဓား (maung:hkya.dha:)
- သားလှီးဓား (sa:hli:dha:)
Descendants
- → English: dah
Further reading
- “ဓား” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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