ရန်ကုန်
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Burmese
Etymology
Literally, “end of strife”, ရန် (ran, “enemy”) + ကုန် (kun, “run out”).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ယန်ဂုန်
- IPA(key): /jàɴɡòʊɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: rankun • ALA-LC: ranʻkunʻ • BGN/PCGN: yan-gon • Okell: yañkouñ
Proper noun
ရန်ကုန် • (rankun)
- Yangon, Rangoon (largest city and former capital of Burma)
- ရန်ကုန်မြို့ ― rankunmrui. ― Yangon (city)
- (~တိုင်း, ~တိုင်းဒေသကြီး) Yangon Region (an administrative subdivision in Myanmar)
See also
- (divisions of Myanmar) ကချင် (ka.hkyang), ကယား (ka.ya:), ကရင် (ka.rang), ချင်း (hkyang:), မွန် (mwan), ရခိုင် (ra.hkuing), ရှမ်း (hram:), စစ်ကိုင်း (cackuing:), တနင်္သာရီ (ta.nangsari), ပဲခူး (pai:hku:), မကွေး (ma.kwe:), မန္တလေး (manta.le:), ရန်ကုန် (rankun), ဧရာဝတီ (erawa.ti) (Category: my:Divisions of Myanmar)