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Where does “ခန်တမာ” come from?
ခန်တမာ (Burmese) comes from Hindi ख़ानसामा, from Classical Persian خانسامان.
ခန်တမာ
(Burmese): cook
Definitions
cook
Ancestry of “ခန်တမာ”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Hindi
ख़ानसामा
butler; cook
2
Classical Persian
خانسامان
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