ယ

See also: ဃ, ၰ, ယူ, ယူၢ်, ယဲၢ်, and ω

ယ U+101A, ယ MYANMAR LETTER YA ← မ [U+1019] Myanmar ရ → [U+101B]

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja̰/

• Audio:

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Letter

ယ • (ya.)

1. Ya, the 27th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
2. symbol for ellipsis

Derived terms

• ကဖျက်ယဖျက် (ka.hpyak-ya.hpyak)
• ခခယယ (hka.hka.ya.ya.)
• ခယ (hka.ya.)
• ခယဝယ (hka.ya.wa.ya.)
• ယပက်လက် (ya.paklak)
• ယပင့် (ya.pang.)
• ရောဂါဘယ (rau:gabha.ya.)

Further reading

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

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛ̤ʔ/

• Audio:

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Letter

ယ (ya)

1. Ya, the twenty-sixth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

ယ (ya)

1. tar, pitch.
2. resin of resinous wood, used in caulking, tar, pitch, tar substitute prepared by mixing wax of dammar bee with petrol or wood-iol, is used as a substitute for pitch.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ya (Latin script)
• 𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• य (Devanagari script)
• য (Bengali script)
• ය (Sinhalese script)
• ย or ยะ (Thai script)
• ᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ຍ or ຍະ or ຢະ (Lao script)
• យ (Khmer script)
• 𑄠 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ယ m

1. Burmese script form of ya (“who (relative)”)

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယော (yo)	ယေ (ye)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)	ယေ (ye)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi)	ယေသု (yesu)

Pronoun

ယ n

1. Burmese script form of ya (“which (relative)”)

Usage notes

The case form ယဒ် (yad) is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. Before vowels, the asat and independent vowel coalesce to the corresponding dependent vowel.

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad)	ယာနိ (yāni)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ) or ယဒ် (yad)	ယာနိ (yāni)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā)	ယေဟိ (yehi) or ယေဘိ (yebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)	ယေသံ (yesaṃ) or ယေသာနံ (yesānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi)	ယေသု (yesu)

Noun

ယ m

1. the Pali letter 'y'

Declension

Declension table of "ယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular
Nominative (first)	ယော (yo)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)
Instrumental (third)	ယေန (yena)
Dative (fourth)	ယဿ (yassa) or ယာယ (yāya) or ယတ္ထံ (yatthaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယသ္မာ (yasmā) or ယမှာ (yamhā) or ယာ (yā)
Genitive (sixth)	ယဿ (yassa)
Locative (seventh)	ယသ္မိံ (yasmiṃ) or ယမှိ (yamhi) or ယေ (ye)
Vocative (calling)	ယ (ya)

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

Letter

ယ • (ya)

1. Ya, the 18th letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called ယာ်အီၤထီ (yạ ʼaw̄ hṭaw) in S'gaw Karen.

Etymology 2

Contracted form of ယၤ (yā, “I, me”).

Pronoun

ယ • (ya)

1. Verb prefix indicating the first person: I
2. Noun prefix indicating the first person possessive: my

Western Pwo

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaʔ/

Letter

ယ (transliteration needed)

1. The 19th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called ယၭ in Western Pwo.

Etymology 2

Cognate with S'gaw Karen ယ (ya), Eastern Pwo ယ်ု (jə).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jə/

Pronoun

ယ (transliteration needed)

1. I.
2. my.

Western Pwo personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		ယ	ယၧၩ	ယၥၭ	ယဆၧ	ယ
	plural		ပ	ပၧၩ	ပၥၭ	ပဆၧ	ပ
second person	singular		န	နၧၩ	နၥၭ	နဆၧ	န
	plural		နၥံၪ	နၥံၪ	နၥံၪအၥၭ	နဆၧ	နၥံၪ
third person	singular		အဝ့ၫ	အဝ့ၫ	အဝ့ၫအၥၭ	အဝ့ၫဆၧ	အဝ့ၫအ
	plural		အဝ့ၫၥံၪ	အဝ့ၫၥံၪ	အဝ့ၫၥံၪအၥၭ	အဝ့ၫၥံၪဆၧ	အဝ့ၫၥံၪအ