ဇယ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ယ
• IPA^(key): /zəja̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ja.ya. • ALA-LC: jaya • BGN/PCGN: zăya. • Okell: zăyá

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi चार (cār, “four”).

Numeral

ဇယ • (ja.ya.) (digit ၄)

1. (rare) four

Synonyms

• လေး (le:)
• စတု (ca.tu.)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

ဇယ • (ja.ya.)

1. on an equal basis
2. on equal terms

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• jaya (Latin script)
• 𑀚𑀬 (Brahmi script)
• जय (Devanagari script)
• জয (Bengali script)
• ජය (Sinhalese script)
• ၹယ (Burmese script)
• ชย or ชะยะ (Thai script)
• ᨩᨿ (Tai Tham script)
• ຊຍ or ຊະຍະ or ຊະຢະ (Lao script)
• ជយ (Khmer script)
• 𑄎𑄠 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဇယ m

1. Burmese script form of jaya

Declension

Declension table of "ဇယ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဇယော (jayo)	ဇယာ (jayā)
Accusative (second)	ဇယံ (jayaṃ)	ဇယေ (jaye)
Instrumental (third)	ဇယေန (jayena)	ဇယေဟိ (jayehi) or ဇယေဘိ (jayebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဇယဿ (jayassa) or ဇယာယ (jayāya) or ဇယတ္ထံ (jayatthaṃ)	ဇယာနံ (jayānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဇယသ္မာ (jayasmā) or ဇယမှာ (jayamhā) or ဇယာ (jayā)	ဇယေဟိ (jayehi) or ဇယေဘိ (jayebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဇယဿ (jayassa)	ဇယာနံ (jayānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဇယသ္မိံ (jayasmiṃ) or ဇယမှိ (jayamhi) or ဇယေ (jaye)	ဇယေသု (jayesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဇယ (jaya)	ဇယာ (jayā)