ဇီရာ
Burmese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit जीरक (jīraka).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zìjà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: jira • ALA-LC: jīrā • BGN/PCGN: ziya • Okell: ziya
Noun
ဇီရာ • (jira) (classifier စေ့)
- cumin
- (regional, Danu) Synonym of ပူဒီနာ (pudina, “mint”)[1]
Descendants
- → Shan: ၸီႇယႃႇ (tsìi yàa)
References
- “ဇီရာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
- 2018, ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး, “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science, volume XVI, number 6B: