ကော

Burmese

Pronunciation

(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

Particle

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)

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ကို (kui).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kao/

Noun

ကော (kao)

1. elder brother

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• ko (Latin script)
• 𑀓𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• को (Devanagari script)
• কো (Bengali script)
• කො (Sinhalese script)
• ၵေႃ (Burmese script)
• โก (Thai script)
• ᨠᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂກ (Lao script)
• កោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄮 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ကော

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