英和和英

別の表記

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

語源

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pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), the -ur- (alternatively also -ir-, though the spelling Birma is obsolete in English) is a device used by non-rhotic (British) dialects to represent the schwa found in the pronunciation of the Burmese colloquial form.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɝmə/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ˈbɜːmə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈbʌrmə/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈbøːmə/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ˈbeːmə/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ˈbɛːmə/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈbɜ(r)mɑ/, (non-rhotic, also) /ˈbərmɑ/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)mə
• ハイフネーション: Bur‧ma

固有名詞

Burma

1. 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, 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 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.

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

派生語

参考

• Countries of the world

アナグラム

• rumba, umbra