တာ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ta • ALA-LC: tā • BGN/PCGN: ta • Okell: ta

Etymology 1

Noun

တာ • (ta)

1. (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)
2. embankment
3. (historical) receptacle with cover; box
4. duty; responsibility; assignment
5. length of time

Particle

တာ • (ta)

1. (colloquial) particle suffixed to verbs and adjectives to form nouns

Verb

တာ • (ta)

1. to measure
2. to speak or act in an endearing manner
3. to prattle

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of အတာ (a.ta).

Noun

တာ • (ta)

1. the period of Thingyan

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)

1. palmyra
2. toddy palm

Etymology 2

Cognate with Burmese တာ (ta).

Noun

တာ (tā)

1. measure of length equal to seven cubits or about 11 feet 4½ inches

Etymology 3

Burmese တား (ta:).

Verb

တာ (tā)

1. to hold up, signal to stop

Etymology 4

Burmese ညှာတာ (hnyata).

Verb

တာ (tā)

1. to be considerate

References

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• tā (Latin script)
• 𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
• ता (Devanagari script)
• তা (Bengali script)
• තා (Sinhalese script)
• တႃ (Burmese script)
• ตา (Thai script)
• ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕາ (Lao script)
• តា (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

Adjective

တာ

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā, nominative/accusative plural feminine of တ (ta, “those”)

Pronoun

တာ f

1. (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā (“she”)

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)