ဇီရာ

Burmese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit जीरक (jīraka).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zìjà/
Romanization: MLCTS: jira • ALA-LC: jīrā • BGN/PCGN: ziya • Okell: ziya

Noun

ဇီရာ • (jira) (classifier စေ့)

cumin
(regional, Danu) Synonym of ပူဒီနာ (pudina, “mint”)[1]

Descendants

→ Shan: ၸီႇယႃႇ (tsìi yàa)

References

“ဇီရာ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

ခင်စန္ဒာတိုး (2018) “နောင်ချိုဒေသရှိ ဓနုဒေသိယစကားမှ နေ့စဉ်သုံးစကားများလေ့လာချက်”, in Journal of the Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science‎ (in Burmese), volume XVI, number 6B, archived from the original on 11 November 2022

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