ယောနိ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali yoni (“womb; origin”), from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔ́nḭ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: yau:ni. • ALA-LC: yoni • BGN/PCGN: yaw:ni. • Okell: yòní

Noun

ယောနိ • (yau:ni.)

1. (anatomy) vagina
2. (formal, literary) conception; pregnancy

Synonyms

• သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း (sa:imlam:kraung:)

Further reading

• “ယောနိ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• yoni (Latin script)
• 𑀬𑁄𑀦𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• योनि (Devanagari script)
• যোনি (Bengali script)
• යොනි (Sinhalese script)
• ယေႃၼိ (Burmese script)
• โยนิ (Thai script)
• ᨿᩮᩣᨶᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂຍນິ or ໂຢນິ (Lao script)
• យោនិ (Khmer script)
• 𑄠𑄮𑄚𑄨 (Chakma script)

Noun

ယောနိ f

1. Burmese script form of yoni (“womb”)

Declension

Declension table of "ယောနိ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယောနိ (yoni)	ယောနိယော (yoniyo) or ယောနီ (yonī)
Accusative (second)	ယောနိံ (yoniṃ)	ယောနိယော (yoniyo) or ယောနီ (yonī)
Instrumental (third)	ယောနိယာ (yoniyā)	ယောနီဟိ (yonīhi) or ယောနီဘိ (yonībhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယောနိယာ (yoniyā)	ယောနီနံ (yonīnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယောနိယာ (yoniyā) or ယောနျာ (yonyā)	ယောနီဟိ (yonīhi) or ယောနီဘိ (yonībhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယောနိယာ (yoniyā)	ယောနီနံ (yonīnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယောနိယာ (yoniyā) or ယောနိယံ (yoniyaṃ) or ယောနျံ (yonyaṃ)	ယောနီသု (yonīsu)
Vocative (calling)	ယောနိ (yoni)	ယောနိယော (yoniyo) or ယောနီ (yonī)