ဗြိစ္ဆာ

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit वृश्चिक (vṛścika, “scorpion”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဗျိတ်ဆာ
• IPA^(key): /bjeɪʔsʰà/
• Romanization: MLCTS: brichca • ALA-LC: bricchā • BGN/PCGN: byeikhsa • Okell: byeiʔhsa

Noun

ဗြိစ္ဆာ • (brichca)

1. (astrology) Scorpio (the eighth sign of the zodiac)

See also

Zodiac signs in Burmese · ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup) (layout · text)
မိဿ (mi.ssa.)	ပြိဿ (pri.ssa.)	မေထုန် (mehtun)	ကရကဋ် (ka.ra.kat)
သိဟ် (sih)	ကန် (kan)	တူ (tu)	ဗြိစ္ဆာ (brichca)
ဓနု (dha.nu.)	မကရ (ma.ka.ra.)	ကုံ (kum)	မိန် (min)

Further reading

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