ကော

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• IPA^(key): /kɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: kaw: • Okell: kò

ကော • (kau:)

1. to silt up
2. to head towards extinction, become obsolescent, lie dormant
3. to become no longer useful
4. to be self-assertive

(after /ʔ/)

• IPA^(key): /kɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: kaw: • Okell: kò

(after a vowel or /ɴ/)

• Phonetic respelling: ဂေါ
• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: kau: • ALA-LC: ko • BGN/PCGN: gaw: • Okell: kò

ကော • (kau:)

1. and what about? (used to apply an already asked question to a new topic)

   ခင်ဗျားကော ဘာလူမျိုးလဲ

   hkangbya:kau: bhalu-myui:lai:

   And where are you from?

   (after already answering the same question about oneself)

2. particle suffixed to nouns denoting inclusion
3. particle prefixed to interrogative phrases to denote inclusion: also
4. particle placed at or near the end of a phrase or sentence as emphasis

• “ကော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Borrowed from Burmese ကို (kui).

• IPA^(key): /kao/

ကော (kao)

1. elder brother

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

ကော

1. Burmese script form of ko, which is nominative singular of က (ka, “who (m.)”)