ပတ္တလား

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit वाद्य (vādya, “instrumental music; speech”) + a component of indeterminate meaning and origin တလား (ta.la:).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paʔta̰lá/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: patta.la: • ALA-LC: pattalāʺ • BGN/PCGN: patta.la: • Okell: paʔtálà

Noun

ပတ္တလား • (patta.la:)

  1. (music) Burmese teak and bamboo xylophone

Derived terms

  • ပတ္တလားရွက် (patta.la:rwak)

Descendants

  • → Shan: ပတ်ႈတလႃး (pāt tǎ láa)

Further reading

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