ယာ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ya • ALA-LC: yā • BGN/PCGN: ya • Okell: ya

Etymology 1

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Uncertain. Compare with Tibetan ལ (la, “hillside, mountain pass”) and Chinese 野 (“open country, field, wilderness, countryside area”).

Noun

ယာ • (ya)

1. farmland bearing crops rather than rice.
2. hillside cultivation area

Etymology 2

From a Proto-Sino-Tibetan root. Cognate with Chinese 右 (yòu, “right-hand direction; west”).

Alternative forms

• ညာ (nya)

Noun

ယာ • (ya)

1. right (direction).

   လက်ယာ ― lakya ― right hand

Etymology 3

Verb

ယာ • (ya)

1. to make betel quids

Classifier

ယာ • (ya)

1. numerical classifier for counting betel quids

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• yā (Latin script)
• 𑀬𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• या (Devanagari script)
• যা (Bengali script)
• යා (Sinhalese script)
• ယႃ (Burmese script)
• ยา (Thai script)
• ᨿᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຍາ or ຢາ (Lao script)
• យា (Khmer script)
• 𑄠𑄂 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ယာ f

1. Burmese script form of yā

Declension

Declension table of "ယာ" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယာ (yā)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Accusative (second)	ယံ (yaṃ)	ယာယော (yāyo) or ယာ (yā)
Instrumental (third)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယာယ (yāya)	ယာဟိ (yāhi) or ယာဘိ (yābhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယဿာ (yassā)	ယာသံ (yāsaṃ) or ယာသာနံ (yāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယာယ (yāya) or ယာယံ (yāyaṃ) or ယဿံ (yassaṃ)	ယာသု (yāsu)