က
Translingual
Letter
က
- Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Burmese
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
- IPA(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká
Audio: (file)
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.)
- Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.
Etymology 2
Conjunction
က • (ka.)
- if
- မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Particle
က • (ka.)
- 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.)
- in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)
- ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year
- 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.)
- to dance
Synonyms
- ကခုန် (ka.hkun)
Etymology 6
Noun
က • (ka.)
- (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.
Eastern Pwo
Etymology
From Proto-Karen *kʰaduʔ (“aeroplane”).
Pronunciation
Noun
က (k)
Mon
Etymology
From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
က (transliteration needed)
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
Pronoun
က (ka)
- Burmese script form of ka
Declension
Declension table of "က" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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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) |
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