Where does “ထီလာသား” come from?

ထီလာသား (Burmese) comes from Burmese ထီလာ, from Burmese မိတ္ထီလာ, from English Mithila, from Sanskrit मिथिला — Name of a city said to have been founded by मिथि...

ထီလာသား (Burmese): someone who is nationalistic and a zealous follower of Buddhism

Definitions

  1. someone who is nationalistic and a zealous follower of Buddhism

Ancestry of “ထီလာသား”, step by step

ထီလာသား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ထီလာ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseထီလာThe concept of Burmese nationalism
2Burmeseမိတ္ထီလာ—
3EnglishMithila—
4SanskritमिथिलाName of a city said to have been founded by मिथि...

via Burmese သား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseသားson; meat, flesh
2Old Burmeseသဟ်son
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*tsəʔchild, son, offspring; grandson; relatives; nephew/niece
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