Burma

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

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝmə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma

Burma

1. Myanmar (a country in Southeast Asia), on the west coast of the Indochina Peninsula.
   • 1898, Colquhoun, Archibald R., “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation‎, Harper & Brothers, OCLC 2019080, 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. See Names of Burma on Wikipedia.

• Burma Road
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• rumba, umbra

Burma

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

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

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

Burma

1. Burma (Myanmar)

• rumba, umbra

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

Burma m (genitive Bhurma)

1. Burma

   Synonym: Maenmar

• “Burma” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “Burma” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

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

Burma

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

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

Burma

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar (official, but rarely used)

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

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

Bȗrma f (Cyrillic spelling Бу̑рма)

1. Burma

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

Burma n (genitive Burmas)

1. Burma

   Synonym: Myanmar

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

• Hyphenation: Bur‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾma/, [ˈbuɾ.mɐ]

Burma

1. Burma (a country in 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.