ယက္ခ

Burmese

Etymology

From Sanskrit यक्ष (yakṣa, “yakṣa”). Cognate with យក្ស (yĕək); Lao ຍັກ (nyak) and Thai ยักษ์ (yák). Compare Pali yakkha.

a yakṣa painted on a wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Bangkok

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ယက်ခ
• IPA^(key): /jɛʔkʰa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: yakhka. • ALA-LC: yakkha • BGN/PCGN: yethka. • Okell: yeʔhká

Noun

ယက္ခ • (yakhka.)

1. (mythology) giant; ogre; monster; yakṣa

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• yakkha (Latin script)
• 𑀬𑀓𑁆𑀔 (Brahmi script)
• यक्ख (Devanagari script)
• যক্খ (Bengali script)
• යක‍්ඛ (Sinhalese script)
• ယၵ္ၶ or ယၵ်ၶ (Burmese script)
• ยกฺข or ยักขะ (Thai script)
• ᨿᨠ᩠ᨡ (Tai Tham script)
• ຍກ຺ຂ or ຍັກຂະ or ຢັກຂະ (Lao script)
• យក្ខ (Khmer script)
• 𑄠𑄇𑄴𑄈 (Chakma script)

Noun

ယက္ခ m

1. Burmese script form of yakkha (“demon”)
   • 1984, anonymous author, translated by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu, ပရိတ်လုင်ၽႆတႆး [pǎ rǐt lǔng phǎi tái, Shan Great Paritta]‎^[1] (overall work in Shan), page 2:

     ၅။ သဗ္ဗေသု စက္ကဝါဠေသု၊ ယက္ခာ ဒေဝါ စ ဗြဟ္မနော။
     ယံ အမှေဟိ ကတံ ပုညံ၊ သဗ္ဗသမ္ပတ္တိသာဓကံ [sic]။
     ၆။ သဗ္ဗေ တံ အနုမောဒိတွာ၊ သမဂ္ဂါ သာသနေ ရတာ။
     ပမာဒ ရဟိတာ ဟောန္တု၊ အာရက္ခာသု ဝိသေသတော။

     [၅။ သဗ္ဗေသု စက္ကဝါဠေသု၊ ယက္ခာ ဒေဝါ စ ဗြဟ္မနော။
     ယံ အမှေဟိ ကတံ ပုညံ၊ သဗ္ဗသမ္ပတ္တိသာဓုကံ။
     ၆။ သဗ္ဗေ တံ အနုမောဒိတွာ၊ သမဂ္ဂါ သာသနေ ရတာ။
     ပမာဒ ရဟိတာ ဟောန္တု၊ အာရက္ခာသု ဝိသေသတော။]

     5. sabbesu cakkavāḷesu. yakkhā devā ca brahmano.
     yaṃ amhehi kataṃ puññaṃ. sabbasampattisādhukaṃ.
     6. sabbe taṃ anumoditvā. samaggā sāsane ratā.
     pamāda rahitā hontu. ārakkhāsu visesato.

     5. May all yakkhas, gods, and deities, from the whole universe,
     After partaking of the merits, and of all the thoroughly good fortune
     6. We have acquired, being in harmony, and delighting in the teaching,
     Be not heedless and grant us complete protection.

Declension

Declension table of "ယက္ခ" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ယက္ခော (yakkho)	ယက္ခာ (yakkhā)
Accusative (second)	ယက္ခံ (yakkhaṃ)	ယက္ခေ (yakkhe)
Instrumental (third)	ယက္ခေန (yakkhena)	ယက္ခေဟိ (yakkhehi) or ယက္ခေဘိ (yakkhebhi)
Dative (fourth)	ယက္ခဿ (yakkhassa) or ယက္ခာယ (yakkhāya) or ယက္ခတ္ထံ (yakkhatthaṃ)	ယက္ခာနံ (yakkhānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ယက္ခသ္မာ (yakkhasmā) or ယက္ခမှာ (yakkhamhā) or ယက္ခာ (yakkhā)	ယက္ခေဟိ (yakkhehi) or ယက္ခေဘိ (yakkhebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ယက္ခဿ (yakkhassa)	ယက္ခာနံ (yakkhānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ယက္ခသ္မိံ (yakkhasmiṃ) or ယက္ခမှိ (yakkhamhi) or ယက္ခေ (yakkhe)	ယက္ခေသု (yakkhesu)
Vocative (calling)	ယက္ခ (yakkha)	ယက္ခာ (yakkhā)