say it: bur-MEEZ
burmese is a noun and adjective meaning "a native or inhabitant of Myanmar". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the official language of Burma
of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its people
“the Burmese capital”
“Burmese tonal languages”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burmese come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.