Meanings
- archaicArchaic form of Burma.
In Burmah, and especially in the Tenasserim provinces, teak forests of great value abound, at the forks of the Salween river, and west of Moulmein, between the Martaban river and the Meinam, nearly as far south as Tavoy.
1885, P. L. Simmonds, “The Teak Forests of India and the East, and Our British Imports of Teak”, in Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 33, number 1684, page 344
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