ပုံ

Burmese

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan བབས (babs, “shape, form, appearance”), དབྱིབས (dbyibs, “shape, form, figure”) and Chinese 法.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: pum • ALA-LC: puṃ • BGN/PCGN: pon • Okell: pouñ

Noun

ပုံ • (pum)

1. shape; form; figure.
2. picture (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc.)
3. story (account of events)

Derived terms

• ဓာတ်ပုံ (dhatpum)
• ပုံပြင် (pumprang)
• မြေပုံ (mrepum)

 

Descendants

• → Pa'o Karen: ပုင်ႏ
• → Shan: ပုင်ႇ (pùng) / ပုမ်ႇ (pùm), ဢပုမ်ႇ (ʼǎ pùm)
• → Lü: ᦔᦳᧂᧈ (ṗung¹)
• → Tai Nüa: ᥙᥧᥛᥱ (pǔm)
• → Mon: ပုံ

References

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

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ပုံ (pum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔm/

Noun

ပုံ (pɔm)

1. story

References

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.