ဝေါဟာရ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali vohāra (“designation, term, mode of speech; trade, business”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဝေါဟာ*ရ
• IPA^(key): /wɔ́hàɹa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: wau:hara. • ALA-LC: vohāra • BGN/PCGN: waw:hara. • Okell: wòhará

Noun

ဝေါဟာရ • (wau:hara.)

1. common parlance
2. vocabulary (list of words)
3. term, word

Derived terms

• ရုံးသုံးဝေါဟာရ (rum:sum:wau:hara.)
• လောကဝေါဟာရ (lau:ka.wau:hara.)

Further reading

• “ဝေါဟာရ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 972.
• “ဝေါဟာရ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• vohāra (Latin script)
• 𑀯𑁄𑀳𑀸𑀭 (Brahmi script)
• वोहार (Devanagari script)
• ৰোহার (Bengali script)
• වොහාර (Sinhalese script)
• ဝေႃႁႃရ (Burmese script)
• โวหาร or โวหาระ (Thai script)
• ᩅᩮᩤᩉᩣᩁ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂວຫາຣ or ໂວຫາຣະ (Lao script)
• វោហារ (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄮𑄦𑄂𑄢 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဝေါဟာရ m

1. Burmese script form of vohāra

Declension

Declension table of "ဝေါဟာရ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဝေါဟာရော (vohāro)	ဝေါဟာရာ (vohārā)
Accusative (second)	ဝေါဟာရံ (vohāraṃ)	ဝေါဟာရေ (vohāre)
Instrumental (third)	ဝေါဟာရေန (vohārena)	ဝေါဟာရေဟိ (vohārehi) or ဝေါဟာရေဘိ (vohārebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဝေါဟာရဿ (vohārassa) or ဝေါဟာရာယ (vohārāya) or ဝေါဟာရတ္ထံ (vohāratthaṃ)	ဝေါဟာရာနံ (vohārānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဝေါဟာရသ္မာ (vohārasmā) or ဝေါဟာရမှာ (vohāramhā) or ဝေါဟာရာ (vohārā)	ဝေါဟာရေဟိ (vohārehi) or ဝေါဟာရေဘိ (vohārebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဝေါဟာရဿ (vohārassa)	ဝေါဟာရာနံ (vohārānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဝေါဟာရသ္မိံ (vohārasmiṃ) or ဝေါဟာရမှိ (vohāramhi) or ဝေါဟာရေ (vohāre)	ဝေါဟာရေသု (vohāresu)
Vocative (calling)	ဝေါဟာရ (vohāra)	ဝေါဟာရာ (vohārā)