Burma

See also: burma, Búrma, and ɓurma

English

Alternative forms

• Birma, Birmah (obsolete)
• Burmah (archaic)

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

2. Myanmar (a country in Southeast Asia), on the west coast of the Indochina Peninsula.
   • 1898, Colquhoun, Archibald R., “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation‎^[1], Harper & Brothers, OCLC 2019080, page 14:

     The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire, its area measuring 122,000 square miles, but, as elsewhere remarked, owing to the devastatations^{[sic – meaning devastations]} of the Mohammedan rebellion and ensuing plague, its population has been greatly reduced, and now is not more than 6,000,000. Yet its mineral wealth is greater and more varied than that of any other province. Its capital is Yunnan, between which town and Burma a considerable trade is carried on.

Usage notes

Burma is a traditional name of Myanmar, and was the official name in English 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

• Burma Road
• Burmese

Translations

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

• Arabic: بُورْمَا‎ f (burmā)

  Gulf Arabic: بورما‎ (borma)

• Armenian: Բիրմա (hy) (Birma)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܘܼܪܡܵܐ‎ (Burma)
• Azerbaijani: Birma
• Belarusian: Бі́рма f (Bírma)
• Bengali: বার্মা (bn) (barma), ব্রহ্মদেশ (bn) (brôhmdeś)
• Bulgarian: Би́рма f (Bírma)
• Burmese: ဗမာ (my) (ba.ma), မြန်မာ (my) (mranma)
• Catalan: Birmània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 緬甸, 缅甸 (min⁵ din⁶)

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

  Min Nan: 緬甸, 缅甸 (Bián-tiān)

• Czech: Barma (cs) f
• Danish: Burma, Myanmar
• Dhivehi: ބަރުމާ‎ (barumā)
• Dutch: Birma (nl)
• Esperanto: Birmo (eo)
• Estonian: Birma (et)
• 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), ब्रह्मदेश m (brahmadeś), म्यानमार (hi) m (myānmār), म्यान्मार (hi) m (myānmār), म्यान्मा m (myānmā), बर्मा m (barmā)
• Hungarian: Burma (hu)
• Icelandic: Búrma f
• Ido: Burma (io)
• Indonesian: Birma
• Interlingua: Birmania
• Irish: Burma m
• Italian: Birmania (it)
• Japanese: ビルマ (ja) (Biruma)
• Jingpho: please add this translation if you can
• Kalenjin: Bama
• Kashmiri: बर्मा (barmā)
• Khmer: ភូមា (km) (pʰuumie)
• Kikuyu: Bama
• Korean: 미얀마 (ko) (Miyanma), 버마 (ko) (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
• Mongolian: Бирм (Birm)
• Nepali: बर्मा (barmā)
• Norwegian: Burma
• Persian: برمه‎ (fa) (berme)
• Polish: Birma (pl) f
• Portuguese: Birmânia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਰਮਾ m (barmā)
• 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, Бу̑рма f

  Roman: Mijanmar m, Bȗrma (sh) f

• Shan: မၢၼ်ႈ (shn) (māan)
• Sinhalese: බුරුමය (burumaya), මියන්‍මාරය (miyanmāraya)
• Spanish: Birmania (es) f
• Swahili: Bama (sw), Myama
• Swedish: Burma (sv)
• Tagalog: Birmanya, Burma
• Tamil: பர்மா (ta) (parmā)
• Thai: พม่า (th) (pá-mâa)
• Tibetan: བྷར་མ (bhar ma)
• Turkish: Birmanya (tr), Burma (tr)
• Turkmen: Birma
• Ukrainian: Бі́рма f (Bírma)
• Urdu: برما‎ m (barmā)
• Uyghur: بىرما‎ (birma)
• Uzbek: Birma (uz)
• Vietnamese: Myanma, Miến Điện (vi)
• Western Panjabi: برما‎ m, برہمدیش‎ m
• Zhuang: Menjden

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• rumba, umbra

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Proper noun

Burma

1. Bourma (a village in the Zabré department, Boulgou, Burkina Faso)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈburmɑ/, [ˈburmɑ]
• Rhymes: -urmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Bur‧ma

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma (Myanmar)

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		—	—

Possessive forms of Burma (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Burmani	Burmamme
2nd person	Burmasi	Burmanne
3rd person	Burmansa

Anagrams

• rumba, umbra

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Irish

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Proper noun

Burma m (genitive Bhurma)

1. Burma

   Synonym: Maenmar

Declension

Declension of Burma

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Burma Vocative a Bhurma Genitive Burma Dative Burma

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Burma Genitive an Bhurma Dative leis an mBurma don Bhurma

Derived terms

• Burmach (“Burman, Burmese”, adjective)
• Burmach m (“Burman, Burmese”)
• Burmais f (“the Burmese language”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Burma	Bhurma	mBurma
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “Burma” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “Burma” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Related terms

• burmeser, myanmarer
• burmesisk, myanmarsk

 

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Related terms

• burmesar, myanmarar
• burmesisk, myanmarsk

 

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

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

Etymology

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Proper noun

Burma n (genitive Burmas)

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Burma (“Burma”). Ultimately from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma /bəmà/), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma /mjàɴmà/).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾma/, [ˈbuɾ.mɐ]

Proper noun

Burma

1. Burma (a country in Asia)

   Synonym: Birmanya

   • 2007, Gabriel F. Mallillin & Edgar C. Samar, sambotani IV:

     Si Aung San Suu Kyi ay ang Nobel Peace Laureate na galing sa bansang Burma na kasalukuyang isinailalim sa house arrest. Siya ang nakibakang maibalik ang demokrasya sa kanyang bansa.