ဓာတ်ပုံ

Burmese

Etymology

ဓာတ် (dhat, “essence, quality”) +‎ ပုံ (pum, “picture”)

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဓတ်ပုံ
• IPA^(key): /daʔpòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: dhatpum • ALA-LC: dhātʻpuṃ • BGN/PCGN: datpon • Okell: daʔpouñ

Noun

ဓာတ်ပုံ • (dhatpum)

1. stupa which is a reliquary for the Lord Buddha's relics
2. photograph

   ဓာတ်ပုံရိုက် ― dhatpum-ruik ― to take pictures, to photograph

References

• “ဓာတ်ပုံ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.