ကရင်
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Burmese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Disputed. In official material, the government of Myanmar states it derives from ကမ်းယံ (kam:yam), the name of an ancient ethnic group. Other suggestions include a derogatory term applied to non-Buddhists or from a word meaning "aboriginal", or from Mon ကရေင်.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Phonetic respelling: က'ရင်
- IPA(key): /kəjɪ̀ɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ka.rang • ALA-LC: karaṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: kăyin • Okell: kăyiñ
Proper noun[edit]
ကရင် • (ka.rang)
- Karen or Kayin
- (~ပြည်နယ်) Kayin State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)
Derived terms[edit]
- ကရင်လူမျိုး (ka.ranglu-myui:)
- ကရင်ဝါး (ka.rang-wa:)
- ကရင်ဩသံ (ka.rang-au:sam)
- ပိုးကရင် (pui:ka.rang)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: Karen
See also[edit]
- (divisions of Myanmar) ကချင် (ka.hkyang), ကယား (ka.ya:), ကရင် (ka.rang), ချင်း (hkyang:), မွန် (mwan), ရခိုင် (ra.hkuing), ရှမ်း (hram:), စစ်ကိုင်း (cackuing:), တနင်္သာရီ (ta.nangsari), ပဲခူး (pai:hku:), မကွေး (ma.kwe:), မန္တလေး (manta.le:), ရန်ကုန် (rankun), ဧရာဝတီ (erawa.ti) (Category: my:Divisions of Burma)
References[edit]
- “ကရင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- Nick Cheesman (2002) Seeing 'Karen' in the Union of Myanmar, Asian Ethnicity, 3:2, 202, DOI:10.1080/14631360220132736