က
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Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
- IPA(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká
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Usage notes
[edit]- The voiced pronunciation /ɡa̰/ occurs in the conjunction, particle, and postposition only, and only after a vowel or /ɴ/.
- When followed by ျ and ြ, forms digraphs ကျ and ကြ, pronounced /t͡ɕ/ (in unvoiced positions) or /d͡ʑ/ when voiced.
Etymology 1
[edit]Letter
[edit]က • (ka.)
- Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.
Derived terms
[edit]- ကကြီး (ka.kri:)
- ကကြီးထွန် (ka.kri:htwan)
- ကတိကဝတ် (ka.ti.ka.wat)
- ကဖျက်ယဖျက် (ka.hpyak-ya.hpyak)
- ကလိမ်ကလည်လုပ် (ka.limka.lanylup)
- ကလေးကလား (ka.le:ka.la:)
- ကသီကရီ (ka.sika.ri)
- ကောက်ကစင်း (kaukka.cang:)
- ခွေးကတက် (hkwe:ka.tak)
- တက်ကစီး (takka.ci:)
- ထင်းကလား (htang:ka.la:)
- ထိကပါးရိကပါး (hti.ka.pa:ri.ka.pa:)
- ထိကပေါက် (hti.ka.pauk)
- ဒုံးကလား (dum:ka.la:)
- နှိပ်စက်ကလူပြု (hnipcakka.lu-pru.)
- နားကလော (na:ka.lau:)
- ပျာကလတ် (pyaka.lat)
- ပြန်ကဟပ် (pranka.hap)
- ပြူးကလူးပြာကလာ (pru:ka.lu:praka.la)
- ပေကလတ်ပေကလတ် (peka.latpeka.lat)
- ပေကလတ်ပေကလတ်လုပ် (peka.latpeka.latlup)
- ပေါက်ကရ (paukka.ra.)
- ပေါက်တတ်ကရ (pauktatka.ra.)
- ဖြစ်ကတတ်ဆန်း (hpracka.tathcan:)
- ဗွတ်ကလုံ (bwatka.lum)
- ဘာကလိုတိုတို (bhaka.luituitui)
- မပီကလာပီကလာ (ma.pika.lapika.la)
- မျက်ကလူးဆန်ပျာ (myakka.lu:hcanpya)
- မျက်ကလဲဆန်ပျာ (myakka.lai:hcanpya)
- မြက်ကလုံး (mrakka.lum:)
- မဟုတ်ကဟုတ်က (ma.hutka.hutka.)
- လက်ကတီး (lakka.ti:)
- လက်ကသုံး (lakka.sum:)
- လက်ကသုံးတောင်ဝှေး (lakka.sum:taunghwe:)
- ဝင်ကစွပ် (wangka.cwap)
- ဝေဖန်တိကပြု (wehpanti.ka.pru.)
- သနားကမား (sa.na:ka.ma:)
- သို့ကတည်း (sui.ka.tany:)
- အထင်ကရ (a.htangka.ra.)
- အာဂန္တုကဘတ် (agantu.ka.bhat)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ga³ ~ ʔga² (“to sing, dance, play”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ga (“to dance, leap, stride”); cognate with Old Chinese 歌 (OC *kaːl, “to sing”) and Tibetan གར (gar, “to dance”) (STEDT).
Verb
[edit]က • (ka.)
Verb | က (ka.) |
---|---|
Noun | အက (a.ka.) |
- to dance
Synonyms
[edit]- ကခုန် (ka.hkun)
Noun
[edit]က • (ka.)
- a dance
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]According to Hill (2019) (p. 32), cognate with Tibetan ཁལ (khal, “burden, load”), Old Chinese 荷 (OC *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ, “to carry; load”).
Verb
[edit]က • (ka.)
Noun
[edit]က • (ka.)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Particle
[edit]က • (ka.)
- indicates the subject of the sentence, a topic marker, a nominative marker
- သူက ဒီလို ပြောခဲ့တယ်
- suka. dilui prau:hkai.tai
- He said like this.
Derived terms
[edit]- ခုတင်က (hku.tangka.)
- တစ်ခါက (tachkaka.)
- တစ်နေ့က (tacne.ka.)
- ထဲက (htai:ka.)
- နောက်နောက်က (nauknaukka.)
- ဘယ်တုန်းက (bhaitun:ka.)
- ရှစ်စပ်ကလည် (hraccapka.lany)
- ရှေ့ကပေါက် (hre.ka.pauk)
- သေးကလူချေးကလူ (se:ka.luhkye:ka.lu)
- အသီးသီးအသကအသက (a.si:si:a.sa.ka.a.sa.ka.)
Etymology 5
[edit]Postposition
[edit]က • (ka.)
- in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)
- ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year
- from (in reference to a place)
- တောင်ဘက်က ― taungbhakka. ― from the south
- ရန်ကုန်က ― rankunka. ― from Rangoon
Etymology 6
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]က • (ka.)
- if
- မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 7
[edit]Noun
[edit]က • (ka.)
- (only used in compounds) fish
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 8
[edit]Verb
[edit]က • (ka.)
Derived terms
[edit]- မက (ma.ka.)
- မကောမက (ma.kau:ma.ka.)
- မရမက (ma.ra.ma.ka.)
- ရုံမက (rumma.ka.)
- သည့်ကလောက် (sany.ka.lauk)
- သို့ကလို (sui.ka.lui)
- သို့ကလောက် (sui.ka.lauk)
Further reading
[edit]- “က” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
- “က” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]An instance of Translingual က, ultimately descending from Brahmi 𑀓.
Letter
[edit]က (ka)
- Ka, the first consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).
Noun
[edit]က (ka)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]က (ka)
- howdah harness saddle.
- fulcrum, short prop[2]
Etymology 4
[edit]Verb
[edit]က (ka)
- to be lacking.
- to fail.
- ရုံဟွံကပဵုသှာတ်အာဣရ။
- ruṃhwaṃkapeushātʼāʼira.
- There is enough and to spare.
- သြန်မသုန်စှော်ဟွံက။
- sranmasunchokhwaṃka.
- There is fifty rupees and more.
Etymology 5
[edit]Verb
[edit]က (transliteration needed)
- to harness a horse or any draught animal.
References
[edit]Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Pronoun
[edit]က m
- Burmese script form of ka (“who (m.)”)
Declension
[edit]Declension table of "က" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | ကော (ko) | ကေ (ke) |
Accusative (second) | ကံ (kaṃ) | ကေ (ke) |
Instrumental (third) | ကေန (kena) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi) | ကေသု (kesu) |
Pronoun
[edit]က n
- Burmese script form of ka (“what”)
Declension
[edit]Declension table of "က" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | ကိံ (kiṃ) | ကာနိ (kāni) |
Accusative (second) | ကိံ (kiṃ) | ကာနိ (kāni) |
Instrumental (third) | ကေန (kena) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Dative (fourth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ကသ္မာ (kasmā) or ကိသ္မာ (kismā) | ကေဟိ (kehi) or ကေဘိ (kebhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | ကဿ (kassa) or ကိဿ (kissa) | ကေသံ (kesaṃ) or ကေသာနံ (kesānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | ကသ္မိံ (kasmiṃ) or ကမှိ (kamhi) or ကိသ္မိံ (kismiṃ) or ကိမှိ (kimhi) | ကေသု (kesu) |
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