စား
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Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dza (“to eat”). Cognates include Chinese 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ) and Tibetan ཟ (za).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sá/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ca: • ALA-LC: cāʺ • BGN/PCGN: sa: • Okell: sà
Verb
[edit]စား • (ca:)
- to eat
- (mathematics) to divide
Derived terms
[edit]- စားစရာ (ca:ca.ra)
- စားတော်ဆက် (ca:tauhcak)
- စားပြီးပြီလား (ca:pri:prila:)
- စားပွဲ (ca:pwai:)
- စားဖို (ca:hpui)
- စားသောက်ဆိုင် (ca:saukhcuing)
- အစား (a.ca:)
- အစားအစာ (a.ca:a.ca)
References
[edit]- “စား” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.