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See also: စာ, စား, စို, စီး, and စော

စ U+1005, စ
MYANMAR LETTER CA
← င
 		Myanmar ဆ →

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sa̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ca. • ALA-LC: ca • BGN/PCGN: sa. • Okell: sá
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Letter

စ • (ca.)

  1. Ca, the 6th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Etymology 1

Verb

စ • (ca.)

  1. to begin; to start.
    Synonym: ဦး (u:)
    Antonym: ဆုံး (hcum:)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Mon: စ (ca /caʔ/)

Verb

စ • (ca.)

  1. euphonic
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

စ • (ca.)

  1. interrogative verbal particle
    Synonym: လား (la:)
    ကြားပါစ ― kra:paca. ― do/did you hear it?
    တွေ့ပါစ ― twe.paca. ― do/did you find it?
    မြင်ပါစ ― mrangpaca. ― do/did you see it?
    ရှိပါစ ― hri.paca. ― is it there?

References

Mon

Etymology 1

From Old Mon စ (caʔ), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *caʔ (“to eat”). Cognate with Nyah Kur จาʔ, Khmer ស៊ី (sii).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɕiəʔ/
    Note: This pronunciation was developed from Middle Mon in a phonetically irregular manner.
  • (Myanmar) IPA(key): /cɛʔ/
  • (Thailand) IPA(key): /ceaʔ/
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Letter

စ (ca)

  1. Ca, the sixth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Verb

စ (ca)

  1. to eat.
  2. to live on, to live (by the revenues of something)
  3. to divide (in arithmetic).
  4. to take (in chess and other games)
  5. {usually as va.} to begin, start {to}, do for the first time.
  6. to eat, to live on, by, by the revenues of, govern, to devide {in arithmetic}, to take, in chess and other games, wear away, erode.

Adverb

စ (ca)

  1. particle denoting generic or habitual aspect.
Derived terms

(Verbs)

(Nouns)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Burmese စ (ca.).

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar, Thailand) IPA(key): /caʔ/

Verb

စ (ca)

  1. to begin; to start.
  2. {usually as va.} to begin, start {to}, do for the first time, commence.

References

  1. ^ Jenny, Mathias (2001). A Short Introduction to the Mon Language.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 199
  3. ^ Sujaritlak Deepadung (1996) “Mon at Nong Duu, Lamphun Province”, in Mon-Khmer Studies‎, volume 26, page 416
  4. ^ Haswell, J. M. (1874) Grammatical Notes and Vocabulary of the Peguan Language‎, Rangoon: American Mission Press, page 57

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms
  • ca (Latin script)
  • 𑀘 (Brahmi script)
  • च (Devanagari script)
  • চ (Bengali script)
  • ච (Sinhalese script)
  • ၸ (Burmese script)
  • จ or จะ (Thai script)
  • ᨧ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຈ or ຈະ (Lao script)
  • ច (Khmer script)
  • 𑄌 (Chakma script)

Particle

စ

  1. Burmese script form of ca (“and”)
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