Myanmar Name Giving Ceremony Part (3)
After 25th year of age, the word Daw instead of Ma stands before the middle aged women's names, and the word Ko instead of Maung stands before the middle-aged men's names. Since then, Daw has stood before a woman's name for life. But, U stands before an aged man's name, instead of the earlier word Ko.
အသက္ ၂၅ ႏွစ္ခန္႔ ေရာက္လာေသာအခါ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားက္ို (ေဒၚ)ဟု ေျပာင္းလဲေခၚ၍ ၂၅ ခန္႔ေယာက်ာ္းေလးမ်ားကို (ကို)ဟု တပ္ေခၚ၏။ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို ေသဆံုးကြယ္လြန္သည္ထိ (ေဒၚ)ဟု သာ ေ႐ွ႕မွတပ္ေခၚေသာ္လည္း ေယာက်ားေလးမ်ား အသက္ႀကီးလာပါက (ဦး)တပ္၍ ေခၚၾက၏။
For example:
Young woman's name Ma Khin Myint
Young man's name Maung Tin Tin
Middle-aged wonman's name Daw Khin Myint
Middle-aged man's name Ko Tin Tun
Aged woman's name Daw Khin Myint
Aged man's name U Tin Tun