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Translingual
Letter
ရ
- Ra, a letter of the Mon-Burmese script.
- Burmese ရာဇာ (raja, “king”)
- Mon ရမာန် (ramān, “Mon”)
- Pali နိရုဇ္ဈတိ (nirujjhati, “to be destroyed”)
- Rakhine ရွှ (hrwa., “saw (tool)”)
- Rakhine ရှေ့တော်ခံ (hre.tauhkam)
- Shan ရႁၢၼ်း (rǎháan, “monk”)
Burmese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
(for certain loanwords derived from Pali or English):
- Phonetic respelling: *ရ
- IPA(key): /ɹa̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ra. • ALA-LC: ra • BGN/PCGN: ra. • Okell: rá
Letter
ရ • (ra.)
- Ra, the 28th letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-ra (“strength; to win; classifier for people”); cognate with အား (a:, “strength; force”), Old Chinese 力 (OC *rɯɡ, “id”) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
Verb
ရ • (ra.)
- to get, obtain, have
- to attain, acquire, earn, learn, reach, etc.
- to capture
- to be married
- to succeed, manage, be able
- to be permitted, be all right, be OK
မရပါဘူး။- ma.ra.pabhu:||
- It’s not OK.
- must, have to
ဘယ်လောက် ပေးရသလဲ။- bhailauk pe:ra.sa.lai:||
- How much do you have to pay?
Particle
ရ • (ra.)
- particle suffixed to verbs and collocating with the postpositional markers မည် (many), သည် (sany) or the particle မ (ma.) to convey an imperative mood
- particle suffixed to verbs to denote a certain capability or utility
- particle suffixed to a verb denoting affirmation of some action or occurrence
- particle suffixed to nouns as emphasis or to verbs for assonance
Derived terms
Further reading
Mon
Pronunciation
Letter
ရ (ra)
- Ra, the twenty-seventh consonant of the Mon alphabet.
Pronoun
ရ (ra)
- particle of unqualified assertion.
Adjective
ရ (ra)
- assertive.
- Closing the sentence, in questions It precedes the interrogative particle also used with the imperative.
Pali
Alternative scripts
- ra (Latin script)
- 𑀭 (Brahmi script)
- र (Devanagari script)
- র (Bengali script)
- ර (Sinhalese script)
- ร or ระ (Thai script)
- ᩁ (Tai Tham script)
- ຣ or ຣະ (Lao script)
- រ (Khmer script)
- 𑄢 (Chakma script)
Noun
ရ m
- Burmese script form of ra (“the Pali letter 'r'”)
Declension
Declension table of "ရ" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Nominative (first) | ရော (ro) |
Accusative (second) | ရံ (raṃ) |
Instrumental (third) | ရေန (rena) |
Dative (fourth) | ရဿ (rassa) or ရာယ (rāya) or ရတ္ထံ (ratthaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | ရသ္မာ (rasmā) or ရမှာ (ramhā) or ရာ (rā) |
Genitive (sixth) | ရဿ (rassa) |
Locative (seventh) | ရသ္မိံ (rasmiṃ) or ရမှိ (ramhi) or ရေ (re) |
Vocative (calling) | ရ (ra) |
Shan
Pronunciation
Letter
ရ • (rǎ)
- Ra, the 15th letter of the Shan alphabet.