ဗမာ

Burmese

Etymology

Derived from မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar”):

မြန်မာ /mjàɴmà/ → မြန်မာ /mjəmà/ (vowel reduction) → ဗမာ /bəmà/ (dissimilation of initial /m/)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗ'မာ
• IPA^(key): /bəmà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ba.ma • ALA-LC: bamā • BGN/PCGN: băma • Okell: băma

Proper noun

ဗမာ • (ba.ma) (induced creaky tone form ဗမာ့)

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia); Burmese

   ဗမာနိုင်ငံ ― ba.manuingngam ― Burma (country)

   ဗမာပြည် ― ba.maprany ― Burma (country)

   ဗမာစာ ― ba.maca ― Burmese language (written)

   ဗမစာ ― ba.ma.ca ― Burmese language (written)

   ဗမာဘာသာ ― ba.mabhasa ― Burmese language

   ဗမာစကား ― ba.maca.ka: ― Burmese language

   ဗမစကား ― ba.ma.ca.ka: ― Burmese language

Synonyms

• မြန်မာ (mranma /⁠mjàɴmà⁠/)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Arabic: بُورْمَا (burmā)
• → Armenian: Բիրմա (Birma)
• → Azerbaijani: Birma
• → Belarusian: Бі́рма (Bírma)
• → Bengali: বার্মা (barma)
• → Bulgarian: Би́рма (Bírma)
• → Catalan: Birmània
• → Czech: Barma
• → Danish: Burma
• → Dutch: Birma
• → English: Burma
• → Esperanto: Birmo
• → Estonian: Birma
• → Finnish: Burma
• → French: Birmanie
• → Galician: Birmania
• → Georgian: ბირმა (birma)
• → German: Birma
• → Greek: Βιρμανία (Virmanía)
• → Hebrew: בורמה (burma)
• → Hindi: बरमा (barmā)
• → Icelandic: Búrma
• → Ido: Burma
• → Indonesian: Birma
• → Interlingua: Birmania
• → Irish: Burma
• → Italian: Birmania
• → Japanese: ビルマ (Biruma)
• → Kalenjin: Bama
• → Khmer: ភូមា (phuumiə)
• → Kikuyu: Bama
• → Korean: 버마 (Beoma)
• → Lao: ພະມ້າ (pha mā)
• → Latvian: Birma
• → Lithuanian: Birma
• → Luhya: Bama
• → Luo: Bama
• → Macedonian: Бурма (Burma)
• → Maltese: Burma
• → Maori: Pēma
• → Meru: Bama
• → Mon: ဗၟာ, ဗမာ
• → Norwegian: Burma
• → Persian: برمه (berme)
• → Polish: Birma
• → Portuguese: Birmânia
• → Romanian: Birmania
• → Russian: Би́рма (Bírma)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Bȗrma
• → Sinhalese: බුරුමය (burumaya)
• → Spanish: Birmania
• → Swahili: Bama
• → Swedish: Burma
• → Thai: พม่า (pá-mâa)
• → Tibetan: བྷར་མ། (bhar ma)
• → Turkish: Birmanya
• → Turkmen: Birma
• → Ukrainian: Бі́рма (Bírma)
• → Urdu: برما (barmā)
• → Uyghur: بىرما (birma)
• → Uzbek: Birma

Mon

Alternative forms

• (Myanmar) ဗၟာ

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), from မြန်မာ (mranma).

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) IPA^(key): /hə.mɛ̤a̤/
• (Thailand) IPA^(key): /pɛ̤ʔ.mɛ̤a̤/

Proper noun

ဗမာ (bamā)

1. (Myanmar, Thailand) Burma, Myanmar (a country in Southeast Asia); Burman; Burmese (country, person or language)