ကာ

See also: ကား

Burmese

ကာ

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Chinese 干 (OC *kaːn, “shield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ka • ALA-LC: kā • BGN/PCGN: ka • Okell: ka

Noun

ကာ • (ka)

1. (weaponry) shield (defensive armor).

Verb

ကာ • (ka)

1. to block; to shield.

Etymology 2

Adverb

ကာ • (ka)

1. (colloquial) while

Synonyms

• တုန်း (tun:) (informal, colloquial)
• စဉ် (cany) (formal, literary)
• လျက် (lyak) (formal, literary)

Further reading

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

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Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaː/

Noun

ကာ (kā)

1. teapot, tea kettle.

Noun

ကာ (kā)

1. motor car, bus.

Noun

ကာ (kā)

1. work, deed.

   ကၠောန်ကာကုသဵု။

   klonkākuseu.

   To perform works of merit.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• kā (Latin script)
• 𑀓𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• का (Devanagari script)
• কা (Bengali script)
• කා (Sinhalese script)
• ၵႃ (Burmese script)
• กา (Thai script)
• ᨠᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ກາ (Lao script)
• កា (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄂 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ကာ f

1. Burmese script form of kā (“who (f.)”)

Declension

Declension table of "ကာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ကာ (kā)	ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Accusative (second)	ကံ (kaṃ)	ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Instrumental (third)	ကာယ (kāya)	ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)	ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ကာယ (kāya)	ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)	ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ကာယ (kāya) or ကာယံ (kāyaṃ)	ကာသု (kāsu)