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myanmar

UK/mjænˈmɑː/US/ˈmjɑnˌmɑɹ/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Myanmar is the Southeast Asian country of golden pagodas, once called Burma. The road into Myanmar.

Both names are old and local, and which one is used has been a political choice since 1989. Myanmar keeps a half-hour time offset, which very few countries do.

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Definitions of myanmar

  1. 1nounmyanmarSoutheast Asian country of golden pagodas, once called Burma.B2

    “Myanmar has thousands of temples on one plain at Bagan.”

myanmar is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. my

    မြန်မာ

  2. English

    Myanmar

  3. English, today

    myanmar

Myanmar Borrowed, initially into British English, from my မြန်မာ, the formal Burmese name of the main ethnic group in Myanmar; ဗမာ, from which a doublet of Burma is derived, is the informal name. Both Burmese terms are also adjectives meaning "Burmese" (related to Myanmar/Burma, its, people, language, etc). Like the r in the word Burma, the r at the end of Myanmar was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), it is a vowel-lengthening device used by non-rhotic dialects; compare gorm.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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