ဂတာ

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛ̀ˀta/

Noun

ဂတာ (gatā)

1. underpart, bottoms

   တၟံခိုဟ်သ္ဒးစွံဂတာန၊ သြောံခိုဟ်သ္ဒးစွံဖာလ္တူတုဲ။

   tmaṃ khiuh sdaḥ cwaṃ gatāna, sroṃ khiuh sdaḥ cwaṃ phāltū tuy.

   Putting the stone as the bottom of the basket and the rice on the top.

Descendants

• → Eastern Pwo: က်ုတာ (kə tà)

References

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• gatā (Latin script)
• 𑀕𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• गता (Devanagari script)
• গতা (Bengali script)
• ගතා (Sinhalese script)
• ၷတႃ (Burmese script)
• คตา or คะตา (Thai script)
• ᨣᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຄຕາ or ຄະຕາ (Lao script)
• គតា (Khmer script)
• 𑄉𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ဂတာ

1. Burmese script form of gatā, which is ablative singular masculine/neuter & nominative/vocative plural masculine & nominative singular feminine & nominative/vocative plural of ဂတ (gata), which is past participle of ဂစ္ဆတိ (gacchati, “to go”)