ရော်

See also: ရော

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔ̀/
• Romanization: MLCTS: rau • ALA-LC: roʻ • BGN/PCGN: yaw • Okell: yo

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ro "scream, as a fowl"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ရော် • (rau)

1. (of fowl) to call or cry
2. to look expectantly, long for, yearn

Derived terms

• စင်ရော် (cang-rau)
• ရည်ရော် (ranyrau)
• ရမ်းရော် (ram:rau)
• ရော်ရမ်း (rauram:)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-raw (“withered, residue, corpse”). Cognate with Tibetan རོ (ro, “corpse”), Old Chinese 老 (OC *ruːʔ, “old”) (STEDT).

Verb

ရော် • (rau)

1. to wither
2. to become overripe
3. to become old, age

Derived terms

• ညှိုးရော် (hnyui:rau)
• ဖြူဖပ်ဖြူရော် (hpruhpaphprurau)
• ဖြူဖပ်ဖြူရော်ဖြစ် (hpruhpaphprurauhprac)
• ဖြူရော်ရော်ဖြစ် (hpruraurauhprac)
• ရင့်ရော် (rang.rau)

 

Further reading

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