ဒါန

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali dāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dàna̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: dana. • ALA-LC: dāna • BGN/PCGN: dana. • Okell: daná

Noun

ဒါန • (dana.)

1. (Buddhism) dana, one of the Ten Perfections
2. charity, beneficence, almsgiving

Derived terms

• ဒါနရှင် (dana.hrang)
• ဓမ္မဒါန (dhamma.dana.)
• အလှူဒါန (a.hludana.)

 

See also

• ပါရမီဆယ်ပါး (para.mihcaipa:)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• dāna (Latin script)
• 𑀤𑀸𑀦 (Brahmi script)
• दान (Devanagari script)
• দান (Bengali script)
• දාන (Sinhalese script)
• ၻႃၼ (Burmese script)
• ทาน or ทานะ (Thai script)
• ᨴᩤᨶ (Tai Tham script)
• ທານ or ທານະ (Lao script)
• ទាន (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄂𑄚 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဒါန n

1. Burmese script form of dāna (“gift”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဒါန" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဒါနံ (dānaṃ)	ဒါနာနိ (dānāni)
Accusative (second)	ဒါနံ (dānaṃ)	ဒါနာနိ (dānāni)
Instrumental (third)	ဒါနေန (dānena)	ဒါနေဟိ (dānehi) or ဒါနေဘိ (dānebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဒါနဿ (dānassa) or ဒါနာယ (dānāya) or ဒါနတ္ထံ (dānatthaṃ)	ဒါနာနံ (dānānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဒါနသ္မာ (dānasmā) or ဒါနမှာ (dānamhā) or ဒါနာ (dānā)	ဒါနေဟိ (dānehi) or ဒါနေဘိ (dānebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဒါနဿ (dānassa)	ဒါနာနံ (dānānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဒါနသ္မိံ (dānasmiṃ) or ဒါနမှိ (dānamhi) or ဒါနေ (dāne)	ဒါနေသု (dānesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဒါန (dāna)	ဒါနာနိ (dānāni)