Where does “ဓာတ်မီးခြစ်” come from?

ဓာတ်မီးခြစ် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ဓာတ်, from Pali dhātu, from Sanskrit धातु — layer, stratum; constituent part, ingredient;...

ဓာတ်မီးခြစ် (Burmese): mechanical lighter

Definitions

  1. mechanical lighter

Ancestry of “ဓာတ်မီးခြစ်”, step by step

ဓာတ်မီးခြစ် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ဓာတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဓာတ်relic; mineral; faecal matter
2Palidhātuelement; natural condition, a relic; root of a...
3Sanskritधातुlayer, stratum; constituent part, ingredient;...

via Burmese မီးခြစ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseမီးခြစ်box or book of matches, lighter
2Burmeseမီးfire; light; brilliance
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanmejfire
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