အော်

See also: ဪ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɔ̀/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: au • ALA-LC: ʼoʻ • BGN/PCGN: aw • Okell: o

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔaːw (“to shout, cry out”). Cognate with Mizo au (“to shout”), Old Chinese 呼 (OC *qʰaː, “to exhale, shout”) (STEDT).

Verb

အော် • (au)

  1. to shout; call
  2. to berate; scold
Derived terms
  • ကုလားအော် (ku.la:au)
  • ဖားအော် (hpa:au)
  • ဟစ်အော် (hacau)
  • အော်ကျယ်ဟစ်ကျယ် (au-kyaihackyai)
  • အော်ကျယ်အော်ကျယ် (au-kyaiau-kyai)
  • အော်ကြီးဟစ်ကျယ် (au-kri:hackyai)
  • အော်ကြီးဟစ်ကြီး (au-kri:hackri:)
  • အော်ငေါက် (au-ngauk)
  • အော်ပွဲ (au-pwai:)
  • အော်မြည် (au-mrany)
  • အော်လန် (aulan)
  • အော်ဟစ် (auhac)

Etymology 2

Perhaps an old Chinese loan, from Middle Chinese 澳 (MC 'awH|'juwk, “inlet, bay”). Shared lexeme across several mainland Southeast Asian languages, including Mon ဩ and Thai อ่าว (àao).[1]

Noun

အော် • (au)

  1. bay
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

အော် • (au)

  1. tenth in the set of twelve vowels traditionally taught in the learning of Burmese

References

  1. ^ Mathias Jenny (2015) “Foreign influence in the Burmese language”, in International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges, page 12

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