ဂီတ

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit गीत (gīta) or Pali gīta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡìta̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: gita. • ALA-LC: gīta • BGN/PCGN: gita. • Okell: gitá

Noun

ဂီတ • (gita.)

1. music

Derived terms

• ဂီတစာဆို (gita.cahcui)
• ဂီတနည်းပြ (gita.nany:pra.)
• ဂီတပညာ (gita.pa.nya)
• ဂီတသင်္ကေတ (gita.sangketa.)
• ဂီတသမား (gita.sa.ma:)
• မဟာဂီတ (ma.hagita.)

Further reading

• “ဂီတ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “ဂီတ” in Wörterbuch Burmesisch–Deutsch (VEB Verlag Enzykolopädie Leipzig 1976), by Annemarie Esche.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• gīta (Latin script)
• 𑀕𑀻𑀢 (Brahmi script)
• गीत (Devanagari script)
• গীত (Bengali script)
• ගීත (Sinhalese script)
• ဂဳတ or ၷီတ (Burmese script)
• คีต or คีตะ (Thai script)
• ᨣᩦᨲ (Tai Tham script)
• ຄີຕ or ຄີຕະ (Lao script)
• គីត (Khmer script)
• 𑄉𑄩𑄖 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဂီတ n

1. Burmese script form of gīta (“song”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဂီတ" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဂီတံ (gītaṃ)	ဂီတာနိ (gītāni)
Accusative (second)	ဂီတံ (gītaṃ)	ဂီတာနိ (gītāni)
Instrumental (third)	ဂီတေန (gītena)	ဂီတေဟိ (gītehi) or ဂီတေဘိ (gītebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဂီတဿ (gītassa) or ဂီတာယ (gītāya) or ဂီတတ္ထံ (gītatthaṃ)	ဂီတာနံ (gītānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဂီတသ္မာ (gītasmā) or ဂီတမှာ (gītamhā) or ဂီတာ (gītā)	ဂီတေဟိ (gītehi) or ဂီတေဘိ (gītebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဂီတဿ (gītassa)	ဂီတာနံ (gītānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဂီတသ္မိံ (gītasmiṃ) or ဂီတမှိ (gītamhi) or ဂီတေ (gīte)	ဂီတေသု (gītesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဂီတ (gīta)	ဂီတာနိ (gītāni)