ကာ

See also: ကား

Burmese
ကာ

Etymology 1

Cognate with Old Chinese 干 (OC *kaːn, “shield”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kà/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ka • ALA-LC: kā • BGN/PCGN: ka • Okell: ka

Noun

ကာ • (ka)

  1. (weaponry) shield (defensive armor).

Verb

ကာ • (ka)

  1. to block; to shield.

Adverb

ကာ • (ka)

  1. (colloquial) while
Synonyms
  • တုန်း (tun:) (informal, colloquial)
  • စဉ် (cany) (formal, literary)
  • လျက် (lyak) (formal, literary)

Further reading

Mon

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaː/

Noun

ကာ (kā)

  1. teapot, tea kettle.

Noun

ကာ (kā)

  1. motor car, bus.

Noun

ကာ (kā)

  1. work, deed.
    ကၠောန်ကာကုသဵု။
    klonkākuseu.
    To perform works of merit.

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms

Pronoun

ကာ f

  1. Burmese script form of kā (“who (f.)”)

Declension
Declension table of "ကာ" (feminine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)ကာ (kā)ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Accusative (second)ကံ (kaṃ)ကာယော (kāyo) or ကာ (kā)
Instrumental (third)ကာယ (kāya)ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Dative (fourth)ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)ကာယ (kāya)ကာဟိ (kāhi) or ကာဘိ (kābhi)
Genitive (sixth)ကာယ (kāya) or ကဿာ (kassā)ကာသံ (kāsaṃ) or ကာသာနံ (kāsānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)ကာယ (kāya) or ကာယံ (kāyaṃ)ကာသု (kāsu)
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