ဘာသာ

See also: ᨽᩣᩈᩣ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali bhāsā, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā). The Burmese meaning of the term was extended to refer to religion or religious affiliation in the mid-1800s during British rule.

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဘာ+သာ
IPA^(key): /bàðà/
Romanization: MLCTS: bhasa • ALA-LC: bhāsā • BGN/PCGN: badha • Okell: batha

Noun

ဘာသာ • (bhasa)

language (system of communication using words or symbols)
religion
custom
subject (of academic studies)

Synonyms

(language) စကား (ca.ka:), ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)

Derived terms

ကိုးကွယ်ဘာသာ (kui:kwaibhasa)
ကိုယ့်ဘာသာ (kuiy.bhasa)
ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ (buddha.bhasa)
ဘာသာခြား (bhasahkra:)
ဘာသာစကား (bhasaca.ka:)
ဘာသာတရား (bhasata.ra:)
ဘာသာဓလေ့ (bhasadha.le.)
ဘာသာပြန် (bhasa-pran)
ဘာသာဗေဒ (bhasabeda.)
ဘာသာဘာဝ (bhasabhawa.)
ဘာသာရပ် (bhasarap)
ဘာသာလဝါ (bhasala.wa)
မသိလိုက်မသိဘာသာ (ma.si.luikma.si.bhasa)
ရုံးသုံးဘာသာ (rum:sum:bhasa)
အယူဘာသာ (a.yubhasa)
အလျောက်ဘာသာ (a.lyaukbhasa)
အလိုက်ဘာသာ (a.luikbhasa)
ဧကဝဏ္ဏဘာသာ (eka.wanna.bhasa)

References

2017 August 11, Michel Picard, The Appropriation of Religion in Southeast Asia and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN:

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali bhāsā, from Sanskrit भाषा (bhāṣā).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʰɛ̤a.sa(ː)/[1]

Noun

ဘာသာ (bhāsā)

language[2]
ဘာသာ မန် ― bhāsā Man ― the Mon language
system of religion[2]

References

Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎ (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 1110
Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 102

Pali

Alternative forms

bhāsā (Latin script)
𑀪𑀸𑀲𑀸 (Brahmi script)
भासा (Devanagari script)
ভাসা (Bengali script)
භාසා (Sinhalese script)
ꧤႃသႃ (Burmese script)
ภาสา (Thai script)
ᨽᩣᩈᩣ (Tai Tham script)
ຠາສາ (Lao script)
ភាសា (Khmer script)
𑄞𑄂𑄥𑄂 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဘာသာ f

Burmese script form of bhāsā (“language”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဘာသာ" (feminine)

Case \\ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဘာသာ (bhāsā)	ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā)
Accusative (second)	ဘာသံ (bhāsaṃ)	ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā)
Instrumental (third)	ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya)	ဘာသာဟိ (bhāsāhi) or ဘာသာဘိ (bhāsābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya)	ဘာသာနံ (bhāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya)	ဘာသာဟိ (bhāsāhi) or ဘာသာဘိ (bhāsābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya)	ဘာသာနံ (bhāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဘာသာယ (bhāsāya) or ဘာသာယံ (bhāsāyaṃ)	ဘာသာသု (bhāsāsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဘာသေ (bhāse)	ဘာသာယော (bhāsāyo) or ဘာသာ (bhāsā)

[ys1994-1] Sakamoto, Yasuyuki (1994) Mon - Japanese Dictionary‎ (in Japanese), Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 1110

[jmh1874-2] Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language: To which are Added a Few Pages of Phrases, &c‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 102