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Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʔɔ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: au: • ALA-LC: o • BGN/PCGN: aw: • Okell: ò
Letter
[edit]ဩ • (au:)
- An independent vowel letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Mon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps an old Chinese loan, from Chinese 澳. Shared lexeme across several mainland Southeast Asian languages, including Burmese အော် (au) and Thai อ่าว (àao).[1]
Noun
[edit]ဩ (au)
Interjection
[edit]ဩ (au)
- oh!
Letter
[edit]ဩ (ʼa)
- ʼAu, the ninth vowel of the modern Mon alphabet.
References
[edit]- ^ Mathias Jenny (2015) “Foreign influence in the Burmese language”, in International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges