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Burmese
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: အ'
- IPA(key): /ʔə/
- Romanization: MLCTS: a.- • ALA-LC: ʼa- • BGN/PCGN: ă • Okell: ă
Etymology 1
Prefix
အ- • (a.-)
- used to make nouns from verbs, from adjectives or from other nouns
- အလုပ် ― a.lup ― work (thing to do)
- အက ― a.ka. ― a dance (thing that one dances)
- used with a reduplicated noun to mean ‘various, diverse’
- အပြည်ပြည် ― a.pranyprany ― various countries
- အနိုင်နိုင်ငံ ― a.nuingnuingngam ― various states
- sometimes used as meaningless prefix to disambiguate in sentences
- အထည် ― a.htany ― cloth, fabric (ထည် already means "cloth")
- အမြီး ― a.mri: ― tail (မြီး already means "tail")
Usage notes
Very frequently deleted when the noun to which it is prefixed is used in a compound. When used with a reduplicated polysyllabic noun, only the first syllable is reduplicated.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Pali a- (“not”).
Prefix
အ- • (a.-)
- particle prefixed to words derived from Pali and Sanskrit to denote negation
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