Etymology

kalar

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Today it means: Burmese-language slur for Muslims living in Myanmar of Bangladeshi and Rohingya origins, mocking them for their black-colored dark skin. Full definition →

Burmese ကုလား
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  1. Burmese · borrowed fromကုလား
  2. English todaykalar

From Burmese ကုလား (ku.la:).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.