မင်

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Burmese

မင် (mang)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak (“black, dark; ink”). Cognate with Tibetan སྨག (smag, “dark, darkness”), མོག་པ (mog pa, “dark-coloured”) and Chinese 墨 (mò, “ink”).

The Myanmar-English Dictionary’s derivation from Pali masi (“soot”) is phonologically implausible.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: မှင်
  • IPA(key): /m̥ɪ̀ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: mang • ALA-LC: maṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hmin • Okell: hmiñ

Noun

မင် • (mang)

  1. ink (colored fluid used for writing)

Descendants

  • → Mon: မှၚ် (hmɛŋ)

References

Mon

Pronunciation

Verb

မင် (maṅ)

  1. Alternative form of မၚ်
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