Burma

See also: burma, Búrma, and ɓurma

English

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝmə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Proper noun

Burma

1. Myanmar; a country in Southeast Asia, on the west coast of the Indochina Peninsula.

Usage notes

Burma is a traditional name of Myanmar, and was the official name until 1989. It is still used to express disapproval of the military government which changed the name. See Names of Burma on Wikipedia.

Derived terms

• Burmese

Translations

Southeast Asian country (former name) — See also translations at Myanmar

• Arabic: بُورْمَا‏‎ f (burmā)
• Armenian: Բիրմա (Birma)
• Azeri: Birma
• Belarusian: Бі́рма f (Bírma)
• Bengali: বার্মা (barma), ব্রহ্মদেশ (brôhmôdeś)
• Bulgarian: Би́рма f (Bírma)
• Burmese: ဗမာ (my) (ba.ma), မြန်မာ (my) (mranma)
• Catalan: Birmània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緬甸 (zh), 缅甸 (zh) (Miǎndiàn)

  Min Nan: 緬甸, 缅甸 (Bián-tián)

• Czech: Barma (cs) f
• Danish: Burma, Myanmar
• Dutch: Birma (nl)
• Esperanto: Birmo (eo)
• Estonian: Birma
• Finnish: Burma (fi)
• French: Birmanie (fr)
• Galician: Birmania (gl)
• Georgian: ბირმა (birma)
• German: Birma (de)
• Greek: Βιρμανία (el) f (Virmanía)
• Hebrew: בורמה‏‎ f (burma)
• Hindi: बरमा (hi) (barmā)
• Icelandic: Búrma f
• Ido: Burma (io)
• Indonesian: Birma
• Interlingua: Birmania
• Irish: Burma m
• Italian: Birmania (it)
• Japanese: ビルマ (Biruma)
• Kalenjin: Bama
• Khmer: ភូមា (km) (pʰuumie)
• Kikuyu: Bama
• Korean: 미얀마 (Miyanma), 버마 (Beoma)

• Lao: ພະມ້າ (pha mā)
• Latvian: Birma f
• Lithuanian: Birma (lt) f
• Luhya: Bama
• Luo: Bama
• Lü: ᦙᦱᧃᧈ (maan¹)
• Macedonian: Бу́рма f (Búrma)
• Maltese: Burma
• Maori: Pēma
• Meru: Bama
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: Burma
• Persian: برمه‏‎ (fa) (berme)
• Polish: Birma (pl) f
• Portuguese: Birmânia (pt) f
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: Birmania (ro)
• Russian: Би́рма (ru) f (Bírma), Мья́нма (ru) f (Mʹjánma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мијанмар m, Бурма f

  Roman: Mijanmar m, Burma (sh) f

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: බුරුමය (burumaya), මියන්‍මාරය (miyan‍māraya)
• Spanish: Birmania (es) f
• Swahili: Bama (sw), Myama
• Swedish: Burma (sv)
• Thai: พม่า (th) (pá-mâa)
• Tibetan: བྷར་མ། (bhar ma)
• Turkish: Birmanya (tr)
• Turkmen: Birma
• Ukrainian: Бі́рма f (Bírma)
• Urdu: برما‏‎ m (barmā)
• Uyghur: بىرما‏‎ (birma)
• Uzbek: Birma (uz)
• Vietnamese: Myanma

See also

• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• rumba, umbra

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Finnish

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

Declension

Inflection of Burma (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		Burma	—
genitive		Burman	—
partitive		Burmaa	—
illative		Burmaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Burma	—
accusative	nom.	Burma	—
	gen.	Burman
genitive		Burman	—
partitive		Burmaa	—
inessive		Burmassa	—
elative		Burmasta	—
illative		Burmaan	—
adessive		Burmalla	—
ablative		Burmalta	—
allative		Burmalle	—
essive		Burmana	—
translative		Burmaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Burmatta	—
comitative		—	—

Anagrams

• rumba

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

Synonyms

• Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Related terms

• burmeser, myanmarer
• burmesisk, myanmarsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

Synonyms

• Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Related terms

• burmesar, myanmarar
• burmesisk, myanmarsk

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bûːrma/
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Proper noun

Bȗrma f (Cyrillic spelling Бу̑рма)

1. Burma

Declension

Declension of Burma

	singular
nominative	Burma
genitive	Burme
dative	Burmi
accusative	Burmu
vocative	Burmo
locative	Burmi
instrumental	Burmom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Burma n

1. Burma

Synonyms

• Myanmar

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Burma (“Burma”).

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma