Where does “ဗိန္ဒု” come from?

ဗိန္ဒု (Burmese) comes from Pali bindu, from Sanskrit बिन्दु, from Proto-Indo-Aryan bindúṣ — particle, globule, dot.

ဗိန္ဒု (Burmese): dot; speck

Definitions

  1. dot; speck

Ancestry of “ဗိန္ဒု”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Palibindudrop
2Sanskritबिन्दुa detached particle, drop, globule, dot, spot; a...
3Proto-Indo-Aryanbindúṣparticle, globule, dot
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