The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burman \Bur"man\, n.; 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.
-- a. Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.
Note: Burma is now (1998) named Myanmar.
Usage examples of "burmans".
Our author may not, however, have intended by this passage to assert its maritime situation, but only to say that as the gulf was bounded on the one side by China, so it was, on the other, by the land which contains Anan or Tung-king, Tolomau (which may be Po-lo-man, the country of the Burmans, according to Chinese pronunciation), and other provinces of which he had before spoken.