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န

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န U+1014, န
MYANMAR LETTER NA
← ဓ
[U+1013] 		Myanmar ပ →
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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na̰/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

Letter

န • (na.)

  1. Na, the 21st letter of the Burmese alphabet.
Derived terms
  • ကျကျနန (kya.kya.na.na.)
  • ကျန (kya.na.)
  • ခုန (hku.na.)
  • စိမ်ပြေနပြေ (cimprena.pre)
  • စုံစီနဖာ (cumcina.hpa)
  • ဆန (hca.na.)
  • ဇွဲနပဲ (jwai:na.pai:)
  • နကန်းတစ်လုံးမျှမသိ (na.kan:taclum:hmya.ma.si.)
  • နငယ် (na.ngai)
  • နငယ်နားပင်းပိတ် (na.ngaina:pang:pit)
  • နိမိတ်မရှိနမာမရှိ (ni.mitma.hri.na.mama.hri.)
  • ပဲနပြား (pai:na.pra:)
  • မင်ကျမင်န (mangkya.mangna.)
  • မျက်စမျက်န (myakca.myakna.)
  • ယခုန (ya.hku.na.)
  • ယောင်နန (yaungna.na.)
  • ရှန (hra.na.)
  • လက်ကျလက်န (lakkya.lakna.)
  • လက်စလက်န (lakca.lakna.)
  • လူစလူန (luca.luna.)
  • လူအလူန (lua.luna.)
  • သံတိုမယ်န (samtuimaina.)
  • အကျအန (a.kya.a.na.)
  • အစအန (a.ca.a.na.)

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981. Could it be a clipping + semantic shift of နဖူး (na.hpu:, “forehead”)?”

Verb

န • (na.)

  1. to be stupid, be dull, be a simpleton
Derived terms

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Mon

Pronunciation

Letter

န (na)

  1. Na, the twentieth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

န (na)

  1. rice-basket, bushel.
  2. basket, rice basket, basket as measure of capacity, bushel, measure equal to about a bushel.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • na (Latin script)
  • 𑀦 (Brahmi script)
  • न (Devanagari script)
  • ন (Bengali script)
  • න (Sinhalese script)
  • ၼ (Burmese script)
  • น or นะ (Thai script)
  • ᨶ (Tai Tham script)
  • ນ or ນະ (Lao script)
  • ន (Khmer script)
  • 𑄚 (Chakma script)

Particle

န

  1. Burmese script form of na (“not”)

Adjective

န

  1. Burmese script form of na (“that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (masculine)
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Declension table of "နာ" (feminine)
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Declension table of "န" (neuter)
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Pronoun

န m

  1. Burmese script form of na (“him, it, that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (masculine)
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Pronoun

န n

  1. Burmese script form of na (“it, that”)

Declension

Declension table of "န" (neuter)
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Pa'o Karen

Noun

န (transliteration needed)

  1. knife

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

Letter

န • (na)

  1. Na, the 13th letter of the S'gaw Karen alphabet, called နးတဆံး (nä ta hseë) in S'gaw Karen.

Etymology 2

Contracted form of နၤ (nā, “you (singular)”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”).

Pronoun

န • (na)

  1. you (singular)
  2. your (singular)

Western Pwo

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

န (transliteration needed)

  1. The 14th letter of the Western Pwo alphabet, called နၭ in Western Pwo.
Usage notes
  • When followed by ၠ, forms digraphs နၠ, pronounced /ɲ/.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-ŋ (“you”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen န (na), Eastern Pwo ၮ်ု, Pa'o Karen နာꩻ.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

န (transliteration needed)

  1. you (singular)
  2. your (singular)
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