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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Burma

from Burmese people's self-designation; see Myanmar. Related: Burman.

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Burma (film)

Burma is a 2014 Tamil crime thriller directed by Dharani Dharan and produced by Sudharshan Vembutty under the banner Square Stone Films. It features Michael Thangadurai and Reshmi Menon in the lead roles, while Sampath Raj, Atul Kulkarni, Karthik Sabesh and Madhu Raghuram play supporting roles. The music was scored by Sudharshan M Kumar, while cinematography and editing were handled by Yuva and Vivek Harshan. The film released on 12 September 2014.

Usage examples of "burma".

Y-force in Burma unless the Allies took the Andaman Islands or Rangoon or Moulmein to cut off the Japanese rear.

Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.

Brahmaputra delta and the green hills of Assam and up over the dark mountain ridges of Burma into Lashio.

On the south from Burma to Kashmir, where the political border joins India, Bhutan and Nepal, there are still populations speaking Tibetan and following one or other of the Lamaist sects.

When they walked in on him, Hazelwood had adopted a typical Churchillian posture, gazing across the river at the Houses of Parliament, hands clasped behind him, a Burma cheroot in one corner of his mouth.

There never has been a moment, there never could have been a moment, when Great Britain or the British Empire, single-handed, could fight Germany and Italy, could wage the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the Battle of the Middle East, and at the same time stand thoroughly prepared in Burma, the Malay peninsula, and generally in the Far East, against the impact of a vast military empire like Japan, with more than seventy mobile divisions, the third Navy in the world, a great Air Force, and the thrust of eighty or ninety millions of hardy, warlike Asiatics.

In 1961, on his last day in office, Eisenhower told President-elect Kennedy that if Laos were to fall to communism, it would be only a matter of time before South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma fell too.

Caufield, in her work, In The Rainforest, tells of the Lawa living in the rainforest of northern Thailand bordering Burma.

Their main base was at Imphal about 200 miles south of Ledo in the province of Manipur on the Burma border.

Japanese field generals and the Burma Area Command and Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo had been at odds whether to attempt the invasion of India, if only as far as Manipur and Assam, in order to wipe out the base of any possible Allied return.

They denied that it was a diversion from OVERLORD or that ANVIL needed its landing craft, and insisted that nonfulfillment would allow the Generalissimo to withhold the Y-force, thus causing the failure of the Burma campaign.

Stilwell certainly lacked the iron control over his feelings that characterized Marshall but the underlying source of the poison was his belief that both British and Chinese had been cowardly in the first Burma campaign and had devoted their energies to nonperformance in Burma ever since.

Except the big chief at headquarters, you are the only person in England, I hope, who knows that Nayland Smith has quitted Burma.

A lot of blokes were going to go to Thailand and to see the Burma railway.

In this Sino-Tibetan frontier area run the upper reaches of the great rivers of eastern Asia, the Huanghe or Yellow River, the Yangtse, the Salween and the Mekong, which flow along valleys running more or less north-south and reach the sea through China, Burma and Vietnam.