ဥက္ကာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowing from Pali ukkā, from Sanskrit उल्का (ulkā).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အုပ်ကာ
• IPA^(key): /ʔoʊʔkà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ukka • ALA-LC: ukkā • BGN/PCGN: okka • Okell: ouʔka

Noun

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

1. (astronomy) meteor

Synonyms

• ဥပါကြယ် (u.pa-krai)

Derived terms

• ဥက္ကာ (ukka)
• ဥက္ကာပျံ (ukka-pyam)

 

Proper noun

ဥက္ကာ • (ukka)

1. a male given name from Pali

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• ukkā (Latin script)
• 𑀉𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• उक्का (Devanagari script)
• উক্কা (Bengali script)
• උක‍්කා (Sinhalese script)
• ဢုၵ္ၵႃ or ဢုၵ်ၵႃ (Burmese script)
• อุกฺกา or อุกกา (Thai script)
• ᩏᨠ᩠ᨠᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ອຸກ຺ກາ or ອຸກກາ (Lao script)
• ឧក្កា (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄪𑄇𑄴𑄇𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဥက္ကာ f

1. Burmese script form of ukkā

Declension

Declension table of "ဥက္ကာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဥက္ကာ (ukkā)	ဥက္ကာယော (ukkāyo) or ဥက္ကာ (ukkā)
Accusative (second)	ဥက္ကံ (ukkaṃ)	ဥက္ကာယော (ukkāyo) or ဥက္ကာ (ukkā)
Instrumental (third)	ဥက္ကာယ (ukkāya)	ဥက္ကာဟိ (ukkāhi) or ဥက္ကာဘိ (ukkābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဥက္ကာယ (ukkāya)	ဥက္ကာနံ (ukkānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဥက္ကာယ (ukkāya)	ဥက္ကာဟိ (ukkāhi) or ဥက္ကာဘိ (ukkābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဥက္ကာယ (ukkāya)	ဥက္ကာနံ (ukkānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဥက္ကာယ (ukkāya) or ဥက္ကာယံ (ukkāyaṃ)	ဥက္ကာသု (ukkāsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဥက္ကေ (ukke)	ဥက္ကာယော (ukkāyo) or ဥက္ကာ (ukkā)