ဝေဿ
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Burmese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Pali vessa, from Sanskrit वैश्य (vaiśya).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Phonetic respelling: ဝစ်သ
- IPA(key): /wɪʔθa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: wessa. • ALA-LC: vessa • BGN/PCGN: wittha. • Okell: wiʔthá
Noun[edit]
ဝေဿ • (wessa.)
- (historical, literary) The third class of traditional Burmese society, comprising merchants (Vaishyas), one of the four social classes known as အမျိုးလေးပါး (a.myui:le:pa:)
Synonyms[edit]
- သူဌေးမျိုး (suhte:myui:)
References[edit]
- “ဝေဿ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative forms
Noun[edit]
ဝေဿ m
- Burmese script form of vessa (“a Vaishya”)
Declension[edit]
Declension table of "ဝေဿ" (masculine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative (first) | ဝေဿော (vesso) | ဝေဿာ (vessā) |
| Accusative (second) | ဝေဿံ (vessaṃ) | ဝေဿေ (vesse) |
| Instrumental (third) | ဝေဿေန (vessena) | ဝေဿေဟိ (vessehi) or ဝေဿေဘိ (vessebhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | ဝေဿဿ (vessassa) or ဝေဿာယ (vessāya) or ဝေဿတ္ထံ (vessatthaṃ) | ဝေဿာနံ (vessānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | ဝေဿသ္မာ (vessasmā) or ဝေဿမှာ (vessamhā) or ဝေဿာ (vessā) | ဝေဿေဟိ (vessehi) or ဝေဿေဘိ (vessebhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | ဝေဿဿ (vessassa) | ဝေဿာနံ (vessānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | ဝေဿသ္မိံ (vessasmiṃ) or ဝေဿမှိ (vessamhi) or ဝေဿေ (vesse) | ဝေဿေသု (vessesu) |
| Vocative (calling) | ဝေဿ (vessa) | ဝေဿာ (vessā) |