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1. Wa, the 30th letter of the Burmese alphabet.

• IPA^(key): /wa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: wa. • ALA-LC: va • BGN/PCGN: wa. • Okell: wá

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ဝ • (wa.)

1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
2. full (satisfied, in relation to eating), satiated

• (fat): ဝဖီး (wa.hpi:)

From Parauk Va (佤).

ဝ • (wa.)

1. Wa, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)

• → English: Wa
• → Shan: ဝႃႉ (wâ̰a)

Borrowed from Min Nan 我 (óa, “I; me”). Doublet of ငါ (nga).

ဝ • (wa.)

1. (slang, colloquial) I; me (first person pronoun used by Sino-Burmese people)

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *wa.

• IPA^(key): /wɛ̤ʔ/

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ဝ (wa)

1. Wa, the twenty-ninth consonant of the Mon alphabet.

ဝ (wa)

1. Wa, Lawa, pagan hill man practising slash-and-burn cultivation, a race of northern Burma and Siam formerly noted head hunters. They are closed by Mon writers, with the Karens as a people of more rudimentary culture, name of one of the Mon-Khmer language and its speakers found mainly in areas east of the Salween river in the Shan State.

From iva.

ဝ

1. Burmese script form of va (“like, as if”)

• IPA^(key): /wa˨˦/

ဝ • (wǎ)

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