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Webster 1913 Edition


Burman

Bur′man

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Burmans
.
[“The softened modern M’yan-ma, M'yan-ma [native name] is the source of the European corruption
Burma
.”
Balfour.
]
,
(Ethnol.)
A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burma; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burma; a Burmese.
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Adj.
Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
Burma is now (1998) named Myanmar.