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Birma

Birma is the obsolete form of Burma.

Meaning of Burma

Proper noun

Burma

  1. A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.
    • The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire...1898, Archibald R. Colquhoun, “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 14

Questions about Birma

What is Birma the obsolete form of?
Birma is the obsolete form of Burma.

Words near Birma in the dictionary

  1. birling
  2. birlings
  3. birlinn
  4. birlinns
  5. birls
  6. Birma
  7. Birmah
  8. Birman
  9. Birmans
  10. Birmese
  11. Birmingham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Birma (page history and authors); Burma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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