ကယား

Burmese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Said to be from first-person word in the Kayah language that means “human””)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: က'ယား
• IPA^(key): /kəjá/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ka.ya: • ALA-LC: kayāʺ • BGN/PCGN: kăya: • Okell: kăyà

Proper noun

ကယား • (ka.ya:)

1. Kayah, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)
2. (~ပြည်နယ်) Kayah State (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)

Synonyms

• ကရင်နီ (ka.rangni)

Descendants

• → English: Kayah

See also

• (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 Myanmar)}