မနုဿ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali manussa (“human being”), from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: မနုပ်သာ
• IPA^(key): /ma̰noʊʔθà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ma.nu.ssa. • ALA-LC: manussa • BGN/PCGN: ma.noktha • Okell: mánouʔtha

Noun

မနုဿ • (ma.nu.ssa.)

1. human being

References

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

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• manussa (Latin script)
• 𑀫𑀦𑀼𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मनुस्स (Devanagari script)
• মনুস্স (Bengali script)
• මනුස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• မၼုသ်သ (Burmese script)
• มนุสฺส or มะนุสสะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᨶᩩᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ມນຸສ຺ສ or ມະນຸສສະ (Lao script)
• មនុស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄚𑄪𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

မနုဿ m

1. Burmese script form of manussa (“human”)

Declension

Declension table of "မနုဿ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	မနုဿော (manusso)	မနုဿာ (manussā)
Accusative (second)	မနုဿံ (manussaṃ)	မနုဿေ (manusse)
Instrumental (third)	မနုဿေန (manussena)	မနုဿေဟိ (manussehi) or မနုဿေဘိ (manussebhi)
Dative (fourth)	မနုဿဿ (manussassa) or မနုဿာယ (manussāya) or မနုဿတ္ထံ (manussatthaṃ)	မနုဿာနံ (manussānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	မနုဿသ္မာ (manussasmā) or မနုဿမှာ (manussamhā) or မနုဿာ (manussā)	မနုဿေဟိ (manussehi) or မနုဿေဘိ (manussebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	မနုဿဿ (manussassa)	မနုဿာနံ (manussānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	မနုဿသ္မိံ (manussasmiṃ) or မနုဿမှိ (manussamhi) or မနုဿေ (manusse)	မနုဿေသု (manussesu)
Vocative (calling)	မနုဿ (manussa)	မနုဿာ (manussā)