# တာ
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tà/
* Romanization: MLCTS: ta • ALA-LC: tā • BGN/PCGN: ta • Okell: ta

### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ta "measure with a ta ( 'cord' )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Seems to be related to Proto-Kuki-Chin *taʔ (“to gauge, measure”) (whence Mizo teh (“to measure”)), and probably has further relations across Sino-Tibetan, though due to the very phonologically deficient formation, further cognates are difficult to deduce. That said, looks like it might be from the same word family that gives Old Chinese 圖 (OC *daː, “diagram; to plot, plan; to draw”).”

#### Verb

တာ • (ta)
* to measure

#### Noun

တာ • (ta)
* (historical) unit of distance measure (equal to four cubits as in ကုလလေး (ku.la.le:) or အရညကင် (a.ra.nya.kang), seven cubits as in မြင်းမိုရ် (mrang:muir) or ten cubits as in စက္ကဝါ (cakka.wa)
* embankment
* (historical, archaic) receptacle with cover; box
* duty; responsibility; assignment
* length of time

#### Particle

တာ • (ta)
* (colloquial) particle suffixed to verbs and adjectives to form nouns

#### Derived terms

* ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ (kuiyre:kuiyta)
* ချွေတာ (hkyweta)
* ချွေတာရေး (hkywetare:)
* ငန်းတာ (ngan:ta)
* ဇာတာပေတာ (jatapeta)
* ညတာ (nya.ta)
* ညရေးညတာ (nya.re:nya.ta)
* တပ်တောင်တာဗိုလ်ထု (taptaungtabuilhtu.)
* တွက်တာ (twakta)
* တာခိုး (tahkui:)
* တာစူ (tacu)
* တာတို (tatui)
* တာတိုပြေးပွဲ (tatui-pre:pwai:)
* တာထွက် (tahtwak)
* တာထိုး (tahtui:)
* တာပတ်ကွင်း (tapatkwang:)
* တာရှည် (tahrany)
* တာရှည်ခံ (tahranyhkam)
* တာရိုး (tarui:)
* တာလမ်း (talam:)
* တာလွှတ် (tahlwat)
* တာဝန် (tawan)
* တာဝေ (tawe)
* တာဝေး (tawe:)
* တာသွား (taswa:)
* တိုက်တာ (tuikta)
* တိုင်းတာ (tuing:ta)
* တုံးတာ (tum:ta)
* ဓမ္မတာဝန် (dhamma.tawan)
* နာတာရှည် (natahrany)
* နီတာလံ (nitalam)
* နေ့တာ (ne.ta)
* ပန်းတာ (pan:ta)
* ပူတာ (puta)
* ပေတုံးတာ (petum:ta)
* ဗိုင်းတာ (buing:ta)
* ဗိုင်းတာမ (buing:tama.)
* မထောင်းတာ (ma.htaung:ta)
* မြင်းမိုရ်တာ (mrang:muirta)
* မှုန်းတာ (hmun:ta)
* ရိုးတာ (rui:ta)
* ရေကာတာ (rekata)
* လံတာ (lamta)
* လုပ်ငန်းဆောင်တာ (lupngan:hcaungta)
* လုပ်ရေးဆောင်တာ (lup-re:hcaungta)
* လေတာ (leta)
* သစ်တာ (sacta)
* သေးတာ (se:ta)
* ဟုတ်တာပေါ့ (huttapau.)

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT, and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Is this an ad-hoc sound-symbolic formation?”

#### Verb

တာ • (ta)
* to speak or act in an endearing manner
* to prattle

##### Derived terms

* ညှာတာ (hnyata)
* ညာတာပါတေး (nyatapate:)
* တွတ်တီးတွတ်တာပြော (twatti:twatta-prau:)
* တွယ်တာ (twaita)
* တာအိုး (taui:)
* တီတီတာတာပြော (tititata-prau:)
* နီတာထွေး (nitahtwe:)
* နီတာရဲ (nitarai:)

### Etymology 3

Abbreviation of အတာ (a.ta).

#### Noun

တာ • (ta)
* the period of Thingyan

##### Derived terms

* တာစား (taca:)
* တာသင်္ကြန် (tasangkran)
* တာအိုး (taui:)

### Further reading

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

## Mon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali tāla (“palmyra”) or Sanskrit ताल (tāla). Cognate with Burmese ထန်း (htan:) and Shan ထၢၼ် (thǎan).

#### Noun

တာ (tā)
* palmyra
* toddy palm

### Etymology 2

Cognate with Burmese တာ (ta).

#### Noun

တာ (tā)
* measure of length equal to seven cubits or about 11 feet 4½ inches

### Etymology 3

Burmese တား (ta:).

#### Verb

တာ (tā)
* to hold up, signal to stop

### Etymology 4

Burmese ညှာတာ (hnyata).

#### Verb

တာ (tā)
* to be considerate

### References

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* tā (Latin script)
* 𑀢𑀸 (Brahmi script)
* ता (Devanagari script)
* তা (Bengali script)
* තා (Sinhalese script)
* တႃ (Burmese script)
* ตา (Thai script)
* ᨲᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ຕາ (Lao script)
* តា (Khmer script)
* 𑄖𑄂 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

တာ
* (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā, nominative/accusative plural feminine of တ (ta, “those”)

### Pronoun

တာ f
* (demonstrative) Burmese script form of tā (“she”)