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Burmese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
တာ • (ta)
- (historical) unit of distance measure (equal to four cubits as in ကုလလေး (ku.la.le:) or အရညကင် (a.ra.nya.kang), seven cubits as in မြင်းမိုရ် (mrang:muir) or ten cubits as in စက္ကဝါ (cakka.wa)
- embankment
- (historical) receptacle with cover; box
- duty; responsibility; assignment
- length of time
Particle
တာ • (ta)
- (colloquial) particle suffixed to verbs and adjectives to form nouns
Verb
တာ • (ta)
- to measure
- to speak or act in an endearing manner
- to prattle
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of အတာ (a.ta).
Noun
တာ • (ta)
- the period of Thingyan
Derived terms
References
Mon
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Pali tāla (“palmyra”) or Sanskrit ताल (tāla). Cognate with Burmese ထန်း (htan:) and Shan ထၢၼ် (thǎan).
Noun
တာ (tā)
- palmyra
- toddy palm
Etymology 2
Cognate with Burmese တာ (ta).
Noun
တာ (tā)
- measure of length equal to seven cubits or about 11 feet 4½ inches
Etymology 3
Burmese တား (ta:).
Verb
တာ (tā)
- to hold up, signal to stop
Etymology 4
Burmese ညှာတာ (hnyata).
Verb
တာ (tā)
- to be considerate
References
- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
Alternative scripts
- tā (Latin script)
- 𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- ता (Devanagari script)
- তা (Bengali script)
- තා (Sinhalese script)
- တႃ (Burmese script)
- ตา (Thai script)
- ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
- ຕາ (Lao script)
- តា (Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)
Adjective
တာ
- (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā, nominative/accusative plural feminine of တ (ta, “those”)
Pronoun
တာ f
- (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā (“she”)
Declension
Declension table of "တာ" (feminine)
| Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|
| Nominative (first) | သာ (sā) | တာ (tā) |
| Accusative (second) | တံ (taṃ) | တာ (tā) |
| Instrumental (third) | တာယ (tāya) | တာဟိ (tāhi) or တာဘိ (tābhi) |
| Dative (fourth) | တာယ (tāya) or တဿာ (tassā) or တိဿာ (tissā) or တိဿာယ (tissāya) | တာသံ (tāsaṃ) or တာသာနံ (tāsānaṃ) |
| Ablative (fifth) | တာယ (tāya) | တာဟိ (tāhi) or တာဘိ (tābhi) |
| Genitive (sixth) | တာယ (tāya) or တဿာ (tassā) or တိဿာ (tissā) or တိဿာယ (tissāya) | တာသံ (tāsaṃ) or တာသာနံ (tāsānaṃ) |
| Locative (seventh) | တာယ (tāya) or တာယံ (tāyaṃ) or တိဿံ (tissaṃ) | တာသု (tāsu) |