Etymology

Bagan

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Today it means: A town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar, formerly known as Pagan Full definition →

Burmese ပုဂံ
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The story

  1. Burmese · borrowed fromပုဂံ
  2. English todayBagan

Borrowed from Burmese ပုဂံ (pu.gam). Doublet of Pagan.

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