Dear Chris,
This Dictionary came up once before for a brief discussion on this list back
in 2002. You may find interesting the following message (no. 456) from the
archives. Suan Lu Zaw, who is Burmese, lives in Australia as far as I know.
Jim
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456
From: abhidhammika <abhidhammika@...>
Date: Mon Jan 28, 2002 9:18am
Subject: Re: Jim's Questions Addressed 3
Dear Jim
How are you?
Jim asked:
"Does the Burmese dictionary show the derivation of the entry-words
in some detail? Perhaps you could type out an example picked at
random from one of your volumes. I think I'd find a Pali-Pali
dictionary quite useful."
Suan: The following comes from page 4 Volume 15 of Tipitaka Pali-
Myanmar Dictionary.
{Phandati (kiriya) [phadi+a+ti] to shake. Tena pakkhii na phandati.
jaa,1, 65. (- Sam,1,176. Sam, 2, 115. Thera, 230. Jaa, 2, 356)
Tena pakkhii na phandatiiti tenaayam saku.no na phandati na
calatiiti. Jaa, .t.tha, 2, 214-215. ...More references...}
Every entry-word is shown with its derivation like above, sometimes,
even with more details. [to shake] is the slot where a Myanmar word
comes.
You will see the word 'phandati' has been defined as 'calati' in
terms of a quote from Jaataka atthakathaa page 214-215, Vol.2.
In addition, you will also see a definition of the word 'pakkhii'
as 'saku.no' in the quote.
I hope you got an idea of how this gigantic dictionary works.
With best wishes,
Suan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Clark" <chris.clark@...>
To: <palistudy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 9:36 PM
Subject: [palistudy] Tipiṭaka Pāli-Myanmar
Dear list members,
During a recent trip to Burma, I came across copies of the 22 volume
“Tipiṭaka Pāli-Myanmar” dictionary first published in the 1960s and 1970s
and reprinted about 10 years ago. I purchased one volume and, from an
initial inspection, it looks to be thorough and useful.
Does anyone have any experience using this dictionary and, if so, could you
please provide some feedback? Alternatively, have any academic reviews been
published on this set?
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Clark
PhD candidate
University of Sydney