တက္ကသိုလ်

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali Takkasilā, in reference to the historical center of learning at Taxila, located in modern-day Pakistan. Doublet of တက္ကသီလာ (takka.sila, “Taxila”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: တက်က'သို
• IPA^(key): /tɛʔkəθò/
• Romanization: MLCTS: takka.suil • ALA-LC: takkasuilʻ • BGN/PCGN: tetkătho • Okell: teʔkăthou

Noun

တက္ကသိုလ် • (takka.suil)

1. university; institute of higher learning
2. (historical) In colonial times, a title for writers, artists, and photographers who had studied university. The title was used in front of their pen names.

Derived terms

• စစ်တက္ကသိုလ် (cactakka.suil)

 

Descendants

• Pa'o Karen: တက္ကသိုလ်ႏ
• → Shan: တၵ်ႈၵသူဝ်ႇ (tāk kǎ sò) / တၵ်ႉၵသူဝ်ႇ (tâ̰k kǎ sò)

Further reading

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