ဒေသ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali desa. Compare Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dèθa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: desa. • ALA-LC: desa • BGN/PCGN: detha. • Okell: deithá

Noun

ဒေသ • (desa.)

1. region

Derived terms

• ကမ်းမြောင်ဒေသ (kam:mraungdesa.)
• တစ်စိတ်တစ်ဒေသ (taccittacdesa.)
• တိုင်းဒေသကြီး (tuing:desa.kri:)
• ဒေသခံ (desa.hkam)
• ဒေသစွဲ (desa.cwai:)
• ဒေသစာရီ (desa.cari)
• ဒေသစိတ် (desa.cit)
• ပဋိပက္ခဒေသ (pa.ti.pakhka.desa.)
• မဇ္ဇိမဒေသ (majji.ma.desa.)
• ဝင်ရိုးစွန်းဒေသ (wang-rui:cwan:desa.)
• အရပ်ဒေသ (a.rapdesa.)

 

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• desa (Latin script)
• 𑀤𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• देस (Devanagari script)
• দেস (Bengali script)
• දෙස (Sinhalese script)
• ၻေသ (Burmese script)
• เทส or เทสะ (Thai script)
• ᨴᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເທສ or ເທສະ (Lao script)
• ទេស (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဒေသ m

1. Burmese script form of desa (“place”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဒေသ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဒေသော (deso)	ဒေသာ (desā)
Accusative (second)	ဒေသံ (desaṃ)	ဒေသေ (dese)
Instrumental (third)	ဒေသေန (desena)	ဒေသေဟိ (desehi) or ဒေသေဘိ (desebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဒေသဿ (desassa) or ဒေသာယ (desāya) or ဒေသတ္ထံ (desatthaṃ)	ဒေသာနံ (desānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဒေသသ္မာ (desasmā) or ဒေသမှာ (desamhā) or ဒေသာ (desā)	ဒေသေဟိ (desehi) or ဒေသေဘိ (desebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဒေသဿ (desassa)	ဒေသာနံ (desānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဒေသသ္မိံ (desasmiṃ) or ဒေသမှိ (desamhi) or ဒေသေ (dese)	ဒေသေသု (desesu)
Vocative (calling)	ဒေသ (desa)	ဒေသာ (desā)