နတ်

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Burmese

FWOTD – 24 March 2016

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (“sick; evil spirit”); cognate with Jingpho nat (“spirit, ancestral spirit”). Doublet of နာ (na, “hurt; sick”) (STEDT).

Alternatively, MED considers the word as borrowed from Pali nātha (“protector”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

နတ် • (nat)

  1. (mythology) nat (spirits heavily venerated in Burmese folk religion, either celestial or spectral).
  2. (Buddhism) deva ( heavenly gods ).
  3. lord or protector worthy of devotion.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “နတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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