Burma

See also burma, and Búrma

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (băma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (myanma); see Myanmar for more.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mə

Proper noun

Burma

1. Myanmar; a country in Southeast Asia, on the west coast of the Indochina Peninsula.

Usage notes

Burma is a traditional name of Myanmar, and was the official name until 1989. It is still used to express disapproval of the military government which changed the name.

Related terms

• Burmese

Translations

Myanmar — see Myanmar

Southeast Asian country (former name)

• Arabic: بورما (ar) (būrma) f
• Armenian: Բիրմա (hy) (Birma)
• Bengali: বার্মা (bn) (barma), ব্রহ্মদেশ (bn) (brôhmôdesh)
• Burmese: ဗမာ (my) (băma), မြန်မာ (my) (myanma)
• Catalan: Birmània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緬甸 (cmn), 缅甸 (cmn) (Miǎndiàn)

  Min Nan: 緬甸 (nan) (Bián-tián)

• Czech: Barma (cs) f
• Danish: Burma (da), Myanmar (da)
• Dutch: Birma (nl)
• Esperanto: Birmo (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: Burma (fi)
• French: Birmanie (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: Birmania (gl)
• German: Birma (de)
• Greek: Βιρμανία (el) (Virmanía) f
• Hebrew: בורמה (he) (burma) f
• Hindi: बरमा (hi) (barmā)
• Interlingua: Birmania
• Italian: Birmania (it)
• Japanese: ビルマ (ja) (Biruma)
• Kalenjin: Bama
• Khmer: ប្រទេសភូមា (km) (prɑteih pʰuumie), ភូមា (km) (pʰuumie)

• Kikuyu: Bama
• Korean: 미얀마 (ko) (Miyanma)
• Lao: ພະມ້າ (lo) (pha'-maa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Luhya: Bama
• Luo: Bama
• Macedonian: Бурма (mk) (Búrma) f
• Maltese: Burma (mt)
• Meru: Bama
• Norwegian: Burma (no)
• Persian: برمه (fa) (Berme)
• Polish: Birma (pl) f
• Portuguese: Birmânia (pt) f
• Russian: Бирма (ru) (Bírma) f, Мьянма (ru) (M'jánma) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мијанмар (sh) m, Бурма (sh) f

  Roman: Mijanmar (sh) m, Burma (sh) f

• Sinhalese: බුරුමය (si) (burumaya), මියන්‍මාරය (si) (miyanmāraya)
• Spanish: Birmania (es) f
• Swahili: Bama (sw), Myama (sw)
• Swedish: Burma (sv)
• Thai: พม่า (th) (pámâa)
• Urdu: برما (ur) (barmā) m
• Vietnamese: Myanma (vi)

See also

• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• rumba
• umbra

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Finnish

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Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

Declension

Declension of Burma (type koira) singular plural nominative Burma – genitive Burman – partitive Burmaa – accusative Burma Burman – inessive Burmassa – elative Burmasta – illative Burmaan – adessive Burmalla – ablative Burmalta – allative Burmalle – essive Burmana – translative Burmaksi – instructive – – abessive Burmatta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• rumba

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

Synonyms

• Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Related terms

• burmeser, myanmarer
• burmesisk, myanmarsk

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bûːrma/
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Proper noun

Bȗrma f (Cyrillic spelling Бу̑рма)

1. Burma

Declension

    declension of Burma

	singular
nominative	Burma
genitive	Burme
dative	Burmi
accusative	Burmu
vocative	Burmo
locative	Burmi
instrumental	Burmom

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Proper noun

Burma n

1. Burma

Synonyms

• Myanmar