အနက်

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အ'နက်
• IPA^(key): /ʔənɛʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.nak • ALA-LC: ʼanakʻ • BGN/PCGN: ănet • Okell: ăneʔ

Etymology 1

From အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + a component နက် (nak) of uncertain origin. STEDT gives no etymology (ə-nak "interpretation of a word, translation, version"), while Luce compares Old Chinese 內 (OC *nuːbs, “interior, inner”) and Tibetan ནང (nang, “internal, inside”); these appear phonetically problematic. A semantic extension of the "depth" sense in Etymology 2 also seems plausible, with shift "depth" > "heart of a matter" > "meaning".

Noun

အနက် • (a.nak)

1. meaning, definition

Derived terms

• ဆင့်ပွားအနက် (hcang.pwa:a.nak)
• အနက်ကောက် (a.nakkauk)
• အနက်ပြန် (a.nakpran)
• အနက်ပွား (a.nakpwa:)
• အနက်ဖွင့် (a.nakhpwang.)
• အနက်ဖော် (a.nakhpau)
• အနက်အဓိပ္ပါယ် (a.nak-a.dhippay)

 

Descendants

• → Shan: ဢၼၢၵ်ႈ (ʼǎ nāak)

Etymology 2

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ နက် (nak, “deep”).

Noun

အနက် • (a.nak)

1. depth

Etymology 3

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ နက် (nak, “black”).

Noun

အနက် • (a.nak)

1. black (color)

Derived terms

• ခရုစုတ်အနက် (hka.ru.cut-a.nak)

 

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ə-nak "among ( n. affix )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Postposition

အနက် • (a.nak)

1. postpositional marker suffixed to nouns to indicate selection from a set: out of, from, among

Conjunction

အနက် • (a.nak)

1. (literary) word used in joining sentences: out of

Further reading

• “အနက်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 58.
• “အနက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.