ဇီရာ

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Burmese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit जीरक (jīraka).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zìjà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: jira • ALA-LC: jīrā • BGN/PCGN: ziya • Okell: ziya

Noun

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ဇီရာ (jira) (classifier စေ့)

  1. cumin
  2. (regional, Danu) Synonym of ပူဒီနာ (pudina, mint)[1]

Descendants

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  • Shan: ၸီႇယႃႇ (tsìi yàa)

References

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  1. ^ ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science[1] (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022