ကာယ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali kāya.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ကာ'ယ
• IPA^(key): /kəja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kaya. • ALA-LC: kāya • BGN/PCGN: kăya. • Okell: kăyá

Noun

ကာယ • (kaya.)

1. (anatomy) body; physique

Synonyms

• ကိုယ် (kuiy)

Derived terms

• ကာယကံ (kaya.kam)
• ကာယပညာ (kaya.pa.nya)
• ကာယဗလ (kaya.ba.la.)

 

Further reading

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

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• kāya (Latin script)
• 𑀓𑀸𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• काय (Devanagari script)
• কায (Bengali script)
• කාය (Sinhalese script)
• ၵႃယ (Burmese script)
• กาย or กายะ (Thai script)
• ᨠᩣᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ກາຍ or ກາຍະ or ກາຢະ (Lao script)
• កាយ (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄂𑄠 (Chakma script)

Noun

ကာယ m

1. Burmese script form of kāya

Declension

Declension table of "ကာယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကာယော (kāyo)	ကာယာ (kāyā)
Accusative (second)	ကာယံ (kāyaṃ)	ကာယေ (kāye)
Instrumental (third)	ကာယေန (kāyena)	ကာယေဟိ (kāyehi) or ကာယေဘိ (kāyebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကာယဿ (kāyassa) or ကာယာယ (kāyāya) or ကာယတ္ထံ (kāyatthaṃ)	ကာယာနံ (kāyānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကာယသ္မာ (kāyasmā) or ကာယမှာ (kāyamhā) or ကာယာ (kāyā)	ကာယေဟိ (kāyehi) or ကာယေဘိ (kāyebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကာယဿ (kāyassa)	ကာယာနံ (kāyānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကာယသ္မိံ (kāyasmiṃ) or ကာယမှိ (kāyamhi) or ကာယေ (kāye)	ကာယေသု (kāyesu)
Vocative (calling)	ကာယ (kāya)	ကာယာ (kāyā)

Pronoun

ကာယ (kāya)

1. Burmese script form of kāya, which is instrumental/dative/ablative/genitive/locative singular of ကာ (kā, “who (f.)”)