ဝ

Letter

ဝ

1. Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wa̰/
• MLCTS: wa. • ALA-LC: va • BGN/PCGN: wa. • Okell: wá

Adjective

ဝ • (wa.)

1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
2. full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated

Proper noun

ဝ • (wa.)

1. Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)

Pronoun

ဝ • (wa.)

1. (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wɛ̤ʔ/

Letter

ဝ (wa)

1. Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

Noun

ဝ (wa)

1. Wa, Lawa, pagan hill man practising slash-and-burn cultivation, a race of northern Burma and Siam formerly noted head hunters. They are closed by Mon writers, with the Karens as a people of more rudimentary culture, name of one of the Mon-Khmer language and its speakers found mainly in areas east of the Salween river in the Shan State.

Alternative forms

Particle

ဝ

1. Burmese script form of va (“like, as if”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wa˨˦/

Noun

ဝ • (wǎ)