မင်

Burmese

မင် (mang)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak (“black, dark; ink”). Cognate with Tibetan སྨག (smag, “dark, darkness”), མོག་པ (mog pa, “dark-coloured”) and Chinese 墨 (mò, “ink”).

The Myanmar-English Dictionary’s derivation from Pali masi (“soot”) is phonologically implausible.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မှင်
• IPA^(key): /m̥ɪ̀ɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mang • ALA-LC: maṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hmin • Okell: hmiñ

Noun

မင် • (mang)

1. ink (colored fluid used for writing)

Descendants

• Mon: မှင် (hmɛŋ)

References

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