ရသ

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit रस (rasa) or Pali rasa. Cognate with Thai รส (rót), Lao ລົດ (lot), Lü ᦷᦟᧆ (lod) or ᦷᦟᧆᦉ (lodṡ), Khmer រស (rŭəh), Malay rasa. Doublet of ရသာ (ra.sa).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: ရ+သာ, *ရ+သာ
• IPA^(key): /ja̰ðà/, /ɹa̰ðà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ra.sa. • ALA-LC: rasa • BGN/PCGN: ya.dha/ra.dha • Okell: yátha/rátha

Noun

ရသ • (ra.sa.)

1. taste
2. pleasure, flavour, savour

References

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

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• rasa (Latin script)
• 𑀭𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• रस (Devanagari script)
• রস (Bengali script)
• රස (Sinhalese script)
• รส or ระสะ (Thai script)
• ᩁᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣສ or ຣະສະ (Lao script)
• រស (Khmer script)
• 𑄢𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

ရသ m

1. Burmese script form of rasa (“taste”)

Declension

Declension table of "ရသ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ရသော (raso)	ရသာ (rasā)
Accusative (second)	ရသံ (rasaṃ)	ရသေ (rase)
Instrumental (third)	ရသေန (rasena) or ရသသာ (rasasā)	ရသေဟိ (rasehi) or ရသေဘိ (rasebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ရသဿ (rasassa) or ရသာယ (rasāya) or ရသတ္ထံ (rasatthaṃ)	ရသာနံ (rasānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ရသသ္မာ (rasasmā) or ရသမှာ (rasamhā) or ရသာ (rasā)	ရသေဟိ (rasehi) or ရသေဘိ (rasebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ရသဿ (rasassa)	ရသာနံ (rasānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ရသသ္မိံ (rasasmiṃ) or ရသမှိ (rasamhi) or ရသေ (rase)	ရသေသု (rasesu)
Vocative (calling)	ရသ (rasa)	ရသာ (rasā)