နတ်

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”).

Alternatively, it could be borrowed from Pali nātha (“protector”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: nat • ALA-LC: nat‘ • BGN/PCGN: nat • Okell: naʔ

Noun

နတ် • (nat)

  1. nat (spirit in Burmese mythology)

References

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