ကော
See also: ကော်
Burmese
[edit]Etymology 1
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: kaw: • Okell: kò
Verb
[edit]ကော • (kau:)
- to silt up
- to head towards extinction, become obsolescent, lie dormant
- to become no longer useful
- to be self-assertive
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit](after /ʔ/)
- IPA(key): /kɔ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: kaw: • Okell: kò
(after a vowel or /ɴ/)
- Phonetic respelling: ဂေါ
- IPA(key): /ɡɔ́/
- Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: gaw: • Okell: kò
Particle
[edit]ကော • (kau:)
- and what about? (used to apply an already asked question to a new topic)
- ခင်ဗျားကော ဘာလူမျိုးလဲ(after already answering the same question about oneself)
- hkangbya:kau: bhalu-myui:lai:
- And where are you from?
- particle suffixed to nouns denoting inclusion
- particle prefixed to interrogative phrases to denote inclusion: also
- particle placed at or near the end of a phrase or sentence as emphasis
Derived terms
[edit]- ငါတကောကော (ngata.kau:kau:)
- ရန်ကော (rankau:)
- သောကောရောကော (sau:kau:rau:kau:)
Further reading
[edit]- “ကော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Burmese ကို (kui).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ကော (kao)
- elder brother
References
[edit]- Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Pronoun
[edit]ကော
- Burmese script form of ko, which is nominative singular of က (ka, “who (m.)”)