ကာ
See also: ကား
Burmese
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ကာ
Etymology 1
Cognate with Old Chinese 干 (OC *kaːn, “shield”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ka • ALA-LC: kā • BGN/PCGN: ka • Okell: ka
Noun
ကာ • (ka)
- (weaponry) shield (defensive armor).
Verb
ကာ • (ka)
- to block; to shield.
Adverb
ကာ • (ka)
- (colloquial) while
Synonyms
- တုန်း (tun:) (informal, colloquial)
- စဉ် (cany) (formal, literary)
- လျက် (lyak) (formal, literary)
Further reading
- “ကာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaː/
Noun
ကာ (kā)
- teapot, tea kettle.
Noun
ကာ (kā)
- motor car, bus.
Noun
ကာ (kā)
- work, deed.
- ကၠောန်ကာကုသဵု။
- klonkākuseu.
- To perform works of merit.
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- kā (Latin script)
- 𑀓𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- का (Devanagari script)
- কা (Bengali script)
- කා (Sinhalese script)
- ၵႃ (Burmese script)
- กา (Thai script)
- ᨠᩣ (Tai Tham script)
- ກາ (Lao script)
- កា (Khmer script)
- 𑄇𑄂 (Chakma script)
Pronoun
ကာ f
- Burmese script form of kā (“who (f.)”)
Declension
Declension table of "ကာ" (feminine)
Case \\ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | ကာ (kā) | ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā) |
Accusative (second) | ကံ (kaṃ) | ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā) |
Instrumental (third) | ကာယ (kāya) | ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi) |
Dative (fourth) | ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā) | ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ကာယ (kāya) | ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā) | ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | ကာယ (kāya) or ကာယံ (kāyaṃ) | ကာသု (kāsu) |