က

See also: ကို, ကဲ့, and ᨠ

Translingual

Letter

က

1. Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet.

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Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
• IPA^(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká

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Usage notes

• The voiced pronunciation /ɡa̰/ occurs in the conjunction, particle, and postposition only, and only after a vowel or /ɴ/.
• When followed by ျ and ြ, forms digraphs ကျ and ကြ, pronounced /t͡ɕ/ (in unvoiced positions) or /d͡ʑ/ when voiced.

Etymology 1

Letter

က • (ka.)

1. Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.

Etymology 2

Conjunction

က • (ka.)

1. if

   မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains

Synonyms

• ရင် (rang)
• လျှင် (hlyang) (literary)
• အကယ်၍ (a.kairwe)

Etymology 3

Particle

က • (ka.)

1. indicates the subject of the sentence, a topic marker

   သူက ဦးမောင်မောင်ကို စောင့် နေမယ်။

   suka. u:maungmaungkui caung. nemai||

   He will wait for U Maung Maung.

Etymology 4

Postposition

က • (ka.)

1. in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)

   ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year

2. from (in reference to a place)

   တောင်ဘက်က ― taungbhakka. ― from the south

   ရန်ကုန်က ― rankunka. ― from Rangoon

Etymology 5

Cognate with Chinese 歌 (gē, “to sing”) and Tibetan གར (gar, “to dance”).

Verb

က • (ka.)

1. to dance

Synonyms

• ကခုန် (ka.hkun)

Etymology 6

From Mon က.

Noun

က • (ka.)

1. (only used in compounds) fish

References

• “က” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
• “က” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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Eastern Pwo

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *kʰaduʔ (“aeroplane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰaduʔ/

Noun

က (k)

1. aeroplane

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Mon

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˀ/

Noun

က (transliteration needed)

1. fish

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ka (Latin script)
• 𑀓 (Brahmi script)
• क (Devanagari script)
• ক (Bengali script)
• ක (Sinhalese script)
• ၵ (Burmese script)
• ก or กะ (Thai script)
• ᨠ (Tai Tham script)
• ກ or ກະ (Lao script)
• ក (Khmer script)
• 𑄇 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

က (ka)

1. Burmese script form of ka

Declension

Declension table of "က" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကော (ko)	ကေ (ke)
Accusative (second)	ကံ (kaṃ)	ကေ (ke)
Instrumental (third)	ကေန (kena)	ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)	ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā)	ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)	ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi)	ကေသု (kesu)

Declension table of "ကာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကာ (kā)	ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Accusative (second)	ကံ (kaṃ)	ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Instrumental (third)	ကာယ (kāya)	ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)	ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကာယ (kāya)	ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)	ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကာယံ (kāyaṃ)	ကာသု (kāsu)

Declension table of "က" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကိံ (kiṃ)	ကာနိ (kāni)
Accusative (second)	ကိံ (kiṃ)	ကာနိ (kāni)
Instrumental (third)	ကေန (kena)	ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)	ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā)	ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa)	ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi)	ကေသု (kesu)