Where does “ရန်ကုန်” come from?

ရန်ကုန် (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရန်, from Burmese ရည် — liquid, fluid; to aim.

Ancestry of “ရန်ကုန်”, step by step

ရန်ကုန် traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရန်quarrel; in order to, so as to
2Burmeseရည်liquid, fluid; to aim

via Burmese ကုန်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseကုန်goods; commodity; merchandise
2Proto-Sino-Tibetan(m-)kulall; twenty

Words derived from “ရန်ကုန်”

Every word from Burmese ရည် →Every word from Burmese ရန် →