ရာသီ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali rāsi (“quantity, heap”), from Sanskrit राशि (rāśi).

Pronunciation
  • Phonetic respelling: ရာ+သီ
  • IPA(key): /jàðì/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: rasi • ALA-LC: rāsī • BGN/PCGN: yadhi • Okell: yathi

Noun

ရာသီ • (rasi)

  1. any one of the twelve signs of the zodiac
  2. season
  3. menses
  4. (poetic, figurative) month
  5. (elegant, poetic) one of six seasons recognised in Pali scholarship

Hyponyms

Derived terms
  • ကန္တာရရာသီဥတု (kantara.rasiu.tu.)
  • ကုန်းတွင်းပိုင်းရာသီဥတု (kun:twang:puing:rasiu.tu.)
  • ဆယ့်နှစ်ရာသီ (hcai.hnacrasi)
  • ဆယ့်နှစ်ရာသီရုပ် (hcai.hnacrasirup)
  • ရာသီကုန် (rasikun)
  • ရာသီခွင် (rasihkwang)
  • ရာသီစက် (rasicak)
  • ရာသီစာ (rasica)
  • ရာသီပင် (rasipang)
  • ရာသီပန်း (rasipan:)
  • ရာသီပွဲ (rasi-pwai:)
  • ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup)
  • ရာသီလေ (rasile)
  • ရာသီဥတု (rasiu.tu.)
  • အနောက်တောင်ရာသီလေ (a.nauktaung-rasile)

See also
Seasons in Burmese · ရာသီ (rasi) (layout · text) · category
နွေဦး (nweu:, “spring”) ဝသန္တ (wa.santa., “spring”) နွေ (nwe, “summer”) ဂိမှာန် (gi.hman, “summer”) ဆောင်းဦး (hcaung:u:, “autumn”) ဆောင်း (hcaung:, “winter”) ဟေမန္တ (hemanta., “winter”)

References
  • “ရာသီ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 841.
  • “ရာသီ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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