က

Letter

က

1. Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: က, ဂ
• IPA^(key): /ka̰/, /ɡa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ka. • ALA-LC: ka • BGN/PCGN: ka./ga. • Okell: ká/ká

• (file)

Letter

က • (ka.)

1. Ka, the first letter of the Burmese alphabet, called ကကြီး (ka.kri:) in Burmese.

Conjunction

က • (ka.)

1. if

   မိုးရွာက ― mui:rwaka. ― if it rains

Particle

က • (ka.)

1. indicates the subject of the sentence, a topic marker

   သူက ဦးမောင်မောင်ကို စောင့် နေမယ်။

   suka. u:maungmaungkui caung. nemai||

   He will wait for U Maung Maung.

Postposition

က • (ka.)

1. in, on (in reference to a point in time in the past)

   ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က ― pri:hkai.tai.hnacka. ― (in the) last year

2. from (in reference to a place)

   တောင်ဘက်က ― taungbhakka. ― from the south

   ရန်ကုန်က ― rankunka. ― from Rangoon

Verb

က • (ka.)

1. to dance

References

• “က” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
• “က” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kaʔ (“fish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˀ/

Noun

က (transliteration needed)

1. fish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vedic Sanskrit कः (kaḥ).

Pronoun

က

1. (interrogative) who