ပတ္တလား

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit वाद्य (vādya, “instrumental music; speech”) + a component of indeterminate meaning and origin တလား (ta.la:).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʔta̰lá/
• Romanization: MLCTS: patta.la: • ALA-LC: pattalāʺ • BGN/PCGN: patta.la: • Okell: paʔtálà

Noun

ပတ္တလား • (patta.la:)

1. (music) Burmese teak and bamboo xylophone

Derived terms

• ပတ္တလားရွက် (patta.la:rwak)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: ပတ်ႈတလႃး (pāt tǎ láa)

Further reading

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