န

န U+1014, န MYANMAR LETTER NA ← ဓ [U+1013] Myanmar ပ → [U+1015]

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na̰/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Letter

န • (na.)

1. Na, the 21st letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Derived terms

• ကျကျနန (kya.kya.na.na.)
• ကျန (kya.na.)
• ခုန (hku.na.)
• စိမ်ပြေနပြေ (cimprena.pre)
• စုံစီနဖာ (cumcina.hpa)
• ဆန (hca.na.)
• ဇွဲနပဲ (jwai:na.pai:)
• နကန်းတစ်လုံးမျှမသိ (na.kan:taclum:hmya.ma.si.)
• နငယ် (na.ngai)
• နငယ်နားပင်းပိတ် (na.ngaina:pang:pit)
• နိမိတ်မရှိနမာမရှိ (ni.mitma.hri.na.mama.hri.)
• ပဲနပြား (pai:na.pra:)
• မင်ကျမင်န (mangkya.mangna.)
• မျက်စမျက်န (myakca.myakna.)
• ယခုန (ya.hku.na.)
• ယောင်နန (yaungna.na.)
• ရှန (hra.na.)
• လက်ကျလက်န (lakkya.lakna.)
• လက်စလက်န (lakca.lakna.)
• လူစလူန (luca.luna.)
• လူအလူန (lua.luna.)
• သံတိုမယ်န (samtuimaina.)
• အကျအန (a.kya.a.na.)
• အစအန (a.ca.a.na.)

Etymology 2

Verb

န • (na.)

1. to be stupid, be dull, be a simpleton

Derived terms

• နလပိန်းတုံး (na.la.pin:tum:)

Further reading

• “န” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛ̤ʔ/

• Audio:

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Letter

န (transliteration needed) (no case)

1. Na, the twentieth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

န (na)

1. rice-basket, bushel.
2. basket, rice basket, basket as measure of capacity, bushel, measure equal to about a bushel.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• na (Latin script)
• 𑀦 (Brahmi script)
• न (Devanagari script)
• ন (Bengali script)
• න (Sinhalese script)
• ၼ (Burmese script)
• น or นะ (Thai script)
• ᨶ (Tai Tham script)
• ນ or ນະ (Lao script)
• ន (Khmer script)
• 𑄚 (Chakma script)

Particle

န

1. Burmese script form of na (“not”)

Adjective

န

1. Burmese script form of na (“that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Accusative (second)	နံ (naṃ)	နေ (ne)
Dative (fourth)	နဿ (nassa)	နေသံ (nesaṃ)
Genitive (sixth)	နဿ (nassa)	နေသံ (nesaṃ)

Declension table of "နာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular
Accusative (second)	နံ (naṃ)

Declension table of "န" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular
Accusative (second)	နံ (naṃ)
Dative (fourth)	နဿ (nassa)
Genitive (sixth)	နဿ (nassa)

Pronoun

န m

1. Burmese script form of na (“him, it, that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Accusative (second)	နံ (naṃ)	နေ (ne)
Dative (fourth)	နဿ (nassa)	နေသံ (nesaṃ)
Genitive (sixth)	နဿ (nassa)	နေသံ (nesaṃ)

Pronoun

န n

1. Burmese script form of na (“it, that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular
Accusative (second)	နံ (naṃ)
Dative (fourth)	နဿ (nassa)
Genitive (sixth)	နဿ (nassa)

Pa'o Karen

Noun

န (transliteration needed)

1. knife

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

Letter

န • (na)

1. Na, the 13th letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called နးတဆံး (nä ta hseë) in S'gaw Karen.

Etymology 2

Contracted form of နၤ (nā, “you (singular)”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).

Pronoun

န • (na)

1. you (singular)
2. your (singular)

Western Pwo

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naʔ/

Letter

န (transliteration needed)

1. The 14th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called နၭ in Western Pwo.

Usage notes

• When followed by ၠ, forms digraphs နၠ, pronounced /ɲ/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen န (na), Eastern Pwo ၮ်ု, Pa'o Karen နာꩻ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nə/

Pronoun

န (transliteration needed)

1. you (singular)
2. your (singular)