ဂုရု

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit गुरु (guru) or Pali guru.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဂု*ရု
• IPA^(key): /ɡṵɹṵ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: gu.ru. • ALA-LC: guru • BGN/PCGN: gu.ru. • Okell: gúrú

Noun

ဂုရု • (gu.ru.)

1. (historical, literary) teacher

Synonyms

• ဆရာ (hca.ra)
• အာစရိ (aca.ri.)
• အာစရိယ (aca.ri.ya.)

Derived terms

• ရာဇဂုရု (raja.gu.ru.)
• ရာဇာဓိရာဇဂုရု (rajadhi.raja.gu.ru.)

 

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• guru (Latin script)
• 𑀕𑀼𑀭𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• गुरु (Devanagari script)
• গুরু (Bengali script)
• ගුරු (Sinhalese script)
• ၷုရု (Burmese script)
• คุรุ (Thai script)
• ᨣᩩᩁᩩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຄຸຣຸ (Lao script)
• គុរុ (Khmer script)
• 𑄉𑄪𑄢𑄪 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ဂုရု

1. Burmese script form of guru (“heavy”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဂုရု" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရဝေါ (guravo) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Accusative (second)	ဂုရုံ (guruṃ)	ဂုရဝေါ (guravo) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Instrumental (third)	ဂုရုနာ (gurunā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဂုရုသ္မာ (gurusmā) or ဂုရုမှာ (gurumhā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဂုရုသ္မိံ (gurusmiṃ) or ဂုရုမှိ (gurumhi)	ဂုရူသု (gurūsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရဝေ (gurave) or ဂုရဝေါ (guravo)

Declension table of "ဂုရုနီ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဂုရုနီ (gurunī)	ဂုရုနိယော (guruniyo) or ဂုရုနီ (gurunī)
Accusative (second)	ဂုရုနိံ (guruniṃ) or ဂုရုနိယံ (guruniyaṃ)	ဂုရုနိယော (guruniyo) or ဂုရုနီ (gurunī)
Instrumental (third)	ဂုရုနိယာ (guruniyā)	ဂုရုနီဟိ (gurunīhi) or ဂုရုနီဘိ (gurunībhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဂုရုနိယာ (guruniyā)	ဂုရုနီနံ (gurunīnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဂုရုနိယာ (guruniyā)	ဂုရုနီဟိ (gurunīhi) or ဂုရုနီဘိ (gurunībhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဂုရုနိယာ (guruniyā)	ဂုရုနီနံ (gurunīnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဂုရုနိယာ (guruniyā) or ဂုရုနိယံ (guruniyaṃ)	ဂုရုနီသု (gurunīsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဂုရုနိ (guruni)	ဂုရုနိယော (guruniyo) or ဂုရုနီ (gurunī)

Declension table of "ဂုရု" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရူနိ (gurūni) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Accusative (second)	ဂုရုံ (guruṃ)	ဂုရူနိ (gurūni) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Instrumental (third)	ဂုရုနာ (gurunā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဂုရုသ္မာ (gurusmā) or ဂုရုမှာ (gurumhā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဂုရုသ္မိံ (gurusmiṃ) or ဂုရုမှိ (gurumhi)	ဂုရူသု (gurūsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရူနိ (gurūni) or ဂုရူ (gurū)

Noun

ဂုရု m

1. Burmese script form of guru (“teacher”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဂုရု" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရဝေါ (guravo) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Accusative (second)	ဂုရုံ (guruṃ)	ဂုရဝေါ (guravo) or ဂုရူ (gurū)
Instrumental (third)	ဂုရုနာ (gurunā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဂုရုသ္မာ (gurusmā) or ဂုရုမှာ (gurumhā)	ဂုရူဟိ (gurūhi) or ဂုရူဘိ (gurūbhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဂုရုဿ (gurussa) or ဂုရုနော (guruno)	ဂုရူနံ (gurūnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဂုရုသ္မိံ (gurusmiṃ) or ဂုရုမှိ (gurumhi)	ဂုရူသု (gurūsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဂုရု (guru)	ဂုရဝေ (gurave) or ဂုရဝေါ (guravo)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• গুৰু (Assamese script)
• ᬕᬸᬭᬸ (Balinese script)
• গুরু (Bengali script)
• 𑰐𑰲𑰨𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀕𑀼𑀭𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• गुरु (Devanagari script)
• ગુરુ (Gujarati script)
• ਗੁਰੁ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌗𑍁𑌰𑍁 (Grantha script)
• ꦒꦸꦫꦸ (Javanese script)
• 𑂏𑂳𑂩𑂳 (Kaithi script)
• ಗುರು (Kannada script)
• គុរុ (Khmer script)
• ຄຸຣຸ (Lao script)
• ഗുരു (Malayalam script)
• ᡤᡠᡵᡠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘐𑘳𑘨𑘳 (Modi script)
• ᠺᠤᠷᠤ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦰𑧔𑧈𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐐𑐸𑐬𑐸 (Newa script)
• ଗୁରୁ (Odia script)
• ꢔꢸꢬꢸ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆓𑆶𑆫𑆶 (Sharada script)
• 𑖐𑖲𑖨𑗜 (Siddham script)
• ගුරු (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩞𑩒𑩼𑩒 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚌𑚰𑚤𑚰 (Takri script)
• கு³ரு (Tamil script)
• గురు (Telugu script)
• คุรุ (Thai script)
• གུ་རུ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒑𑒳𑒩𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨍𑨃𑨫𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Adjective

ဂုရု • (gurú) stem

1. Burmese script form of गुरु (“heavy”)

Noun

ဂုရု • (gurú) stem, m

1. Burmese script form of गुरु (“guru; respected person”)