Etymology

Mandalay

Man·da·lay
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Today it means: A city in central Burma (Myanmar) Full definition →

Burmese မန္တလေး
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  1. Burmese · borrowed fromမန္တလေး
  2. English todayMandalay

Borrowed from Burmese မန္တလေး (manta.le:).

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