ဗြာဟ္မဏ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali brāhmaṇa, from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjàhma̰na̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: brahma.na. • ALA-LC: brāhmaṇa • BGN/PCGN: byahma.na. • Okell: byahmáná

Noun

ဗြာဟ္မဏ • (brahma.na.)

1. (historical, literary) The second class of traditional Burmese society, comprising priests and ritualists (brahmins), one of the four social classes known as အမျိုးလေးပါး (a.myui:le:pa:)

Synonyms

• ပုဏ္ဏားမျိုး (punna:myui:)

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• brāhmaṇa (Latin script)
• 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀡 (Brahmi script)
• ब्राह्मण (Devanagari script)
• ব্রাহ্মণ (Bengali script)
• බ්‍රාහ‍්මණ (Sinhalese script)
• ၿြႃႁ္မꧣ or ၿြႃႁ်မꧣ (Burmese script)
• พฺราหฺมณ or พราหมะณะ (Thai script)
• ᨻᩕᩣᩉ᩠ᨾᨱ (Tai Tham script)
• ພ຺ຣາຫ຺ມຓ or ພຣາຫມະຓະ (Lao script)
• ព្រាហ្មណ (Khmer script)
• 𑄝𑄳𑄢𑄂𑄦𑄴𑄟𑄕 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဗြာဟ္မဏ m (feminine ဗြာဟ္မဏီ, feminine (Mon) ဗြာဟ္မဏဳ)

1. Burmese script form of brāhmaṇa (“brahmin”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဗြာဟ္မဏ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဗြာဟ္မဏော (brāhmaṇo)	ဗြာဟ္မဏာ (brāhmaṇā) or ဗြာဟ္မဏာသေ (brāhmaṇāse)
Accusative (second)	ဗြာဟ္မဏံ (brāhmaṇaṃ)	ဗြာဟ္မဏေ (brāhmaṇe)
Instrumental (third)	ဗြာဟ္မဏေန (brāhmaṇena)	ဗြာဟ္မဏေဟိ (brāhmaṇehi) or ဗြာဟ္မဏေဘိ (brāhmaṇebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဗြာဟ္မဏဿ (brāhmaṇassa) or ဗြာဟ္မဏာယ (brāhmaṇāya) or ဗြာဟ္မဏတ္ထံ (brāhmaṇatthaṃ)	ဗြာဟ္မဏာနံ (brāhmaṇānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဗြာဟ္မဏသ္မာ (brāhmaṇasmā) or ဗြာဟ္မဏမှာ (brāhmaṇamhā) or ဗြာဟ္မဏာ (brāhmaṇā)	ဗြာဟ္မဏေဟိ (brāhmaṇehi) or ဗြာဟ္မဏေဘိ (brāhmaṇebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဗြာဟ္မဏဿ (brāhmaṇassa)	ဗြာဟ္မဏာနံ (brāhmaṇānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဗြာဟ္မဏသ္မိံ (brāhmaṇasmiṃ) or ဗြာဟ္မဏမှိ (brāhmaṇamhi) or ဗြာဟ္မဏေ (brāhmaṇe)	ဗြာဟ္မဏေသု (brāhmaṇesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဗြာဟ္မဏ (brāhmaṇa)	ဗြာဟ္မဏာ (brāhmaṇā)

Sanskrit

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