ပခုံး

See also: ပဲခူး and ပိာ်ခွါ

Burmese

Etymology

Compound from *ပ (*pa.) (from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“to carry (on back); shoulder”) or *p(r)ak ~ r-pak (“shoulder”), likely ပိုး (pui:, “to carry on back”)) and ခုံး (hkum:, “arched, convex”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ပ'ခုံး
• IPA^(key): /pəkʰóʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pa.hkum: • ALA-LC: pakhuṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: păhkon: • Okell: păhkoùñ

Noun

ပခုံး • (pa.hkum:)

1. shoulder