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Translingual
[edit]Letter
[edit]ဝ
- (A letter of the Mon-Burmese script, commonly transliterated wa; present in most alphabets of Burma.)
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /wa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: wa. • ALA-LC: va • BGN/PCGN: wa. • Okell: wá
Audio: (file)
Letter
[edit]ဝ • (wa.)
- Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Etymology 1
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Adjective
[edit]ဝ • (wa.)
- fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
- full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated
Derived terms
[edit]- (fat): ဝဖီး (wa.hpi:)
Etymology 2
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]ဝ • (wa.)
- Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from Hokkien 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).
Pronoun
[edit]ဝ • (wa.)
- (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)
Mon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Mon-Khmer *wa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Letter
[edit]ဝ (wa)
- Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Noun
[edit]ဝ (wa)
- Wa, Lawa, pagan hill man practising slash-and-burn cultivation, a race of northern Burma and Siam formerly noted head hunters. They are closed by Mon writers, with the Karens as a people of more rudimentary culture, name of one of the Mon-Khmer language and its speakers found mainly in areas east of the Salween river in the Shan State.
Pali
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Alternative forms
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Particle
[edit]ဝ
- Burmese script form of va (“like, as if”)
Etymology 2
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Alternative forms
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Alternative scripts
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Particle
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Shan
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ဝ • (wǎ)
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