ယာ

See also: ယား

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ya • ALA-LC: yā • BGN/PCGN: ya • Okell: ya

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *hya¹ (“swidden, field (mountain)”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ya (“swidden”); cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (yi, “field”) (STEDT). Despite superficial similarities to Tibetan ལ (la, “hillside, mountain pass”) and modern Chinese 野 (yě, “open country, field, wilderness, countryside area”), the Tibetan and Chinese terms are likely not related.

Noun

ယာ • (ya)

1. farmland bearing crops rather than rice
2. hillside cultivation area

Derived terms

• စက်မှုလယ်ယာ (cakhmu.laiya)
• စည်ပင်သာယာရေး (canypangsayare:)
• စုပေါင်းလယ်ယာ (cu.paung:laiya)
• တောင်ယာ (taung-ya)
• တောင်သူယာခုတ် (taungsuyahkut)
• ပျာယာခတ် (pyayahkat)
• မြေယာ (mreya)
• မြေယာစနစ် (mreyaca.nac)
• ယာကွက် (ya-kwak)
• ယာခင်း (yahkang:)
• ယာခုတ် (yahkut)
• ယာစပါး (yaca.pa:)
• ယာတော (yatau:)
• ယာထွက် (yahtwak)
• လယ်ခွန်ယာနက် (laihkwan-yanak)
• လယ်ယာ (laiya)
• လယ်ယာကိုင်းကျွန်း (laiyakuing:kywan:)
• လယ်ယာချောင်းမြောင်း (laiyahkyaung:mraung:)
• လယ်ယာမိုးမြေ (laiyamui:mre)
• သာယာ (saya)
• သာယာညင်းပျောင်း (saya-nyang:pyaung:)
• သာယာဝပြော (sayawa.prau:)
• အသာအယာ (a.saa.ya)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *wal ~ *m-jal (“to chew (cud, betel)”); cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (məyá, “to chew”) (STEDT).

Verb

ယာ • (ya)

1. to make betel quids

Classifier

ယာ • (ya)

1. numerical classifier for counting betel quids

Derived terms

• ကွမ်းတစ်ယာညက် (kwam:tacya-nyak)
• ကွမ်းယာ (kwam:ya)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-(y/r)a (“right (hand)”). Cognate with Old Chinese 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, *ɢʷɯs, “right-hand direction; west”).

Alternative forms

• ညာ (nya)

Noun

ယာ • (ya)

1. right (direction); the right-hand side

   လက်ယာ ― lakya ― right hand

Derived terms

• လက်ယာ (lak-ya)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• yā (Latin script)
• 𑀬𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• या (Devanagari script)
• যা (Bengali script)
• යා (Sinhalese script)
• ယႃ (Burmese script)
• ยา (Thai script)
• ᨿᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຍາ or ຢາ (Lao script)
• យា (Khmer script)
• 𑄠𑄂 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ယာ f

1. Burmese script form of yā

Declension

Declension table of "ယာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယာ (yā)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Instrumental (third)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယာယံ (yāyaṃ) or ယဿံ (yassaṃ)	ယာသု (yāsu)