Burma

• Birma, Birmah (obsolete)
• Burmah (archaic)

Borrowed, initially into British English, from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more. The r in Burma was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), the -ur- (alternatively also -ir-, though the spelling Birma is obsolete in English) is a device used by non-rhotic dialects to represent the schwa found in the pronunciation of the Burmese colloquial form.

• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.mə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝmə/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɾ.mə/
• (New Zealand, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbøː.mə/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːmə/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːmə/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.mɑː/, (rhotic, spelling pronunciation) /ˈbɐɾ.mɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Burma

2. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.
   • 1898, Archibald R. Colquhoun, “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation‎^[1], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 14:

     The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire, its area measuring 122,000 square miles, but, as elsewhere remarked, owing to the devastatations^{[sic – meaning devastations]} of the Mohammedan rebellion and ensuing plague, its population has been greatly reduced, and now is not more than 6,000,000. Yet its mineral wealth is greater and more varied than that of any other province. Its capital is Yunnan, between which town and Burma a considerable trade is carried on.

• Burma is a traditional name of Myanmar, and was the official name in English until 1989. It is still used to express disapproval of the military government, which changed the name of the nation. See Names of Myanmar on Wikipedia.

• Countries of the world

• rumba, umbra

Burma

1. Bourma (a village in Zabré department, Boulgou, Burkina Faso)

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈburmɑ/, [ˈburmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -urmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Bur‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): Bur‧ma

Burma

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

• rumba, umbra

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Burma m (genitive Bhurma)

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Maenmar

• “Burma”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “Burma”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Burma

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Burma

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

Borrowed from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

• IPA^(key): /bûːrma/
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Bȗrma f (Cyrillic spelling Бу̑рма)

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma).

Burma n (genitive Burmas)

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Myanmar

• “Burma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from Spanish Burma (“Burma”). Ultimately from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma /⁠bəmà⁠/), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma /⁠mjàɴmà⁠/).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾma/ [ˈbuɾ.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾma
• Syllabification: Bur‧ma

Burma (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇ᜔ᜋ)

1. Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)

   Synonym: Birmanya

   • 2007, Gabriel F. Mallillin, Edgar C. Samar, sambotani IV:

     Si Aung San Suu Kyi ay ang Nobel Peace Laureate na galing sa bansang Burma na kasalukuyang isinailalim sa house arrest. Siya ang nakibakang maibalik ang demokrasya sa kanyang bansa.

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• rumba