Where does “နိုင်ငံတကာ” come from?
နိုင်ငံတကာ (Burmese) comes from Burmese နိုင်ငံ, from Burmese နိုင်, from Burmese နာ, from Pali nāga, from Sanskrit नाग, from Proto-Indo-European nogʷós — bare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude.
နိုင်ငံတကာ (Burmese): all nations
Definitions
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Ancestry of “နိုင်ငံတကာ”, step by step
နိုင်ငံတကာ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Burmese နိုင်ငံ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | နိုင်ငံ | country, state |
| 2 | Burmese | နိုင် | can, be able; a title used by Mon men, in lieu of... |
| 3 | Burmese | နာ | to be in pain, be hurt; to be ill |
| 4 | Pali | nāga | cobra; elephant; ironwood tree |
| 5 | Sanskrit | नाग | a snake, especially Coluber naga; a naga or... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | nogʷós | bare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude |
via Burmese တကာ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burmese | တကာ | particle suffixed to nouns to convey the sense: every, all |