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Name Dictionary from Around the World
Origin: Burmese
Borrowed, initially into British English, from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more. Like in the word Myanmar, the r was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), it is a vowel-lengthening device used by non-rhotic (British) dialects; compare gorm.
Etymology: Wiktionary (CC-BY-SA)
Names that start with B, sorted by popularity.