သော
Appearance
See also: သော့ and Appendix:Variations of "sau"
Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θɔ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: sau: • ALA-LC: so • BGN/PCGN: thaw: • Okell: thò
Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]သော • (sau:)
- to joke
Derived terms
[edit]- ပေါသော (pau:sau:)
- သောကား (sau:ka:)
- သောကောရောကော (sau:kau:rau:kau:)
- သောလုံး (sau:lum:)
- သောသော (sau:sau:)
- သောသောကြွယ် (sau:sau:krwai)
- သောသောညံ (sau:sau:nyam)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Pali so. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Particle
[edit]သော • (sau:)
- (literary) particle suffixed to a word to form an adjective
- sentence final marker, emphasizing a wish expressed
Usage notes
[edit]Burmese is a diglossic language. This construct is used in the formal, literary (written) register. See synonyms for the informal, colloquial (spoken) equivalent form(s).
Derived terms
[edit]- ကရုဏာဒေါသော (ka.ru.nadau:sau:)
- စိမ့်သောငှာ (cim.sau:hnga)
- တစ်နေ့သောအခါ (tacne.sau:a.hka)
- တည်းဟူသော (tany:husau:)
- ဖောခြင်းသောခြင်း (hpau:hkrang:sau:hkrang:)
- ဘာသောညာသော (bhasau:nyasau:)
- များသောအားဖြင့် (mya:sau:a:hprang.)
- သို့ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် (sui.hpracsau:kraung.)
- သောကြောင့် (sau:kraung.)
- သောသော (sau:sau:)
- သောသောကြွယ် (sau:sau:krwai)
- သောအခါ (sau:a.hka)
- ဟူသော (husau:)
- အံ့သောငှာ (am.sau:hnga)
Further reading
[edit]- “သော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Pronoun
[edit]သော (m)
- Burmese script form of so, which is nominative singular of တ (ta, “"he, it"”)
Adjective
[edit]သော
- Burmese script form of so, which is nominative singular masculine of တ (ta, “"that"”)
References
[edit]- Mason, Francis (1868), A Pali Grammar on the Basis of Kachchayano, with Chrestomathy and Vocabulary[1], Toungoo: Institute Press, page 49
Categories:
- Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Burmese lemmas
- Burmese verbs
- Burmese terms borrowed from Pali
- Burmese terms derived from Pali
- Burmese particles
- Burmese literary terms
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- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali pronoun forms
- Pali pronoun forms in Burmese script
- Pali adjective forms
- Pali adjective forms in Burmese script