ယပ်

Burmese

ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံယပ်

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-yaːp (“to fan, winnow, paddle, wave”); cognate with Mizo zâap (“fan”), Tibetan གྱབ་མོ (gyab mo, “to fan, wave”), as well as perhaps Old Chinese 箑 (OC *sreːb, *sreb, “fan”). Said root is allofamic with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krap (“to beat, thrash, winnow”), the latter whence Tibetan 'khrab-pa (“to strike, beat, winnow, fan”), Old Chinese 壓 (OC *qreːb, “to press down”) (STEDT).

Other theories have proposed a derivation from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-lap (“leaf”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: yap • ALA-LC: yapʻ • BGN/PCGN: yat • Okell: yaʔ
• Homophone: ရပ် (rap)

Noun

ယပ် • (yap)

1. fan (instrument with a broad surface which is operated manually to create an air current)

   Synonym: ယပ်တောင် (yaptaung)

Derived terms

• ကမ်းယပ် (kam:yap)
• ကြာယပ် (krayap)
• ခြင်ယပ် (hkrang-yap)
• တစ်ဖက်ယပ်တဲ (tachpak-yaptai:)
• ဒေါင်းတောင်ယပ် (daung:taung-yap)
• မီးယပ် (mi:yap)
• မီးယပ်ချမ်း (mi:yaphkyam:)
• မီးယပ်ပညာ (mi:yappa.nya)
• မီးယပ်ပိန်မီးယပ်ခြောက် (mi:yappinmi:yaphkrauk)
• မီးယပ်ရောဂါ (mi:yap-rau:ga)
• မီးယပ်ဝမ်း (mi:yap-wam:)
• မီးယပ်သည် (mi:yapsany)
• ယပ်စောင်းတရား (yapcaung:ta.ra:)
• ယပ်တောင် (yaptaung)
• ယပ်ထောင်တရား (yaphtaungta.ra:)
• ယပ်မား (yapma:)
• ယပ်လှဲတရား (yaphlai:ta.ra:)
• လက်ယပ်ခေါ် (lak-yaphkau)
• လေယပ် (leyap)
• သားမြီးယပ် (sa:mri:yap)

 

See also

• ပန်ကာ (panka)

Further reading

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