ဆာ

See also: ဆား

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hca • ALA-LC: chā • BGN/PCGN: hsa • Okell: hsa

Etymology 1

Verb

ဆာ • (hca)

1. (of limbs) to be limp or be impaired

Derived terms

• ပြစ်ဆာ (prachca)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Sir.

Noun

ဆာ • (hca)

1. Sir (title)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa-t ~ dza-t (“hot; fever; hurt; ill; hungry”). Cognate with Mizo [Term?] (sá-I, “hot (as fire, water, etc.)”), Tibetan ཚ (tsha, “hot, intense”), Old Chinese 災 (OC *ʔslɯː, “disaster, calamity”) (STEDT).

Verb

ဆာ • (hca)

1. to be hungry, be thirsty
2. (figuratively) to hunger for, pine for

Derived terms

• ဆာလောင် (hcalaung)
• နားပူနားဆာလုပ် (na:puna:hcalup)
• နေဆာ (nehca)
• နေဆာလှုံ (nehcahlum)
• နေပူဆာ (nepuhca)
• နေပူဆာလှုံ (nepuhcahlum)
• ပူဆာ (puhca)
• မြိတ်ဆာ (mrithca)
• ရင်ဆာ (ranghca)
• ဝေဆာ (wehca)
• သွေးဆာ (swe:hca)

 

Further reading

• “ဆာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.