တာ
Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tà/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ta • ALA-LC: tā • BGN/PCGN: ta • Okell: ta
Noun
တာ • (ta)
- (historical) unit of distance measure (equal to four cubits as in ကုလလေး (ku.la.le:) or အရညကင် (a.ra.nya.kang), seven cubits as in မြင်းမိုရ် (mrang:muir) or ten cubits as in စက္ကဝါ (cakka.wa)
- embankment
- (historical) receptacle with cover; box
- duty; responsibility; assignment
- length of time
Particle
တာ • (ta)
- (colloquial) particle suffixed to verbs and adjectives to form nouns
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of အတာ (a.ta).
Derived terms
- တာစား (taca:)
- တာသင်္ကြန် (tasangkran)
- တာအိုး (taui:)
References
- “တာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Pali tāla (“palmyra”) or Sanskrit ताल (tāla). Cognate with Burmese ထန်း (htan:) and Shan ထၢၼ် (thǎan).
Noun
တာ (tā)
- measure of length equal to seven cubits or about 11 feet 4½ inches
Etymology 4
Burmese ညှာတာ (hnyata).
References
- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
တာ
Declension
Declension table of "တာ" (feminine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | သာ (sā) | တာ (tā) |
Accusative (second) | တံ (taṃ) | တာ (tā) |
Instrumental (third) | တာယ (tāya) | တာဟိ (tāhi) or တာဘိ (tābhi) |
Dative (fourth) | တာယ (tāya) or တဿာ (tassā) or တိဿာ (tissā) or တိဿာယ (tissāya) | တာသံ (tāsaṃ) or တာသာနံ (tāsānaṃ) |
Ablative (fifth) | တာယ (tāya) | တာဟိ (tāhi) or တာဘိ (tābhi) |
Genitive (sixth) | တာယ (tāya) or တဿာ (tassā) or တိဿာ (tissā) or တိဿာယ (tissāya) | တာသံ (tāsaṃ) or တာသာနံ (tāsānaṃ) |
Locative (seventh) | တာယ (tāya) or တာယံ (tāyaṃ) or တိဿံ (tissaṃ) | တာသု (tāsu) |
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