Wiktionary

လုံး

Burmese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lu(ŋ/m) (“heart; round”). Cognate with Drung tvleum (“round”), Jingpho lum (“round”) and Tibetan ཟླུམ (zlum, “round; spherical”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lóʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lum: • ALA-LC: luṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: lon: • Okell: loùñ

Adjective

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. round, globular, spherical
  2. short and plump, rotund

Synonyms

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Verb

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. to roll something into a rounded shape
  2. to wrestle, grapple with
  3. (of sound) to be garbled
  4. (of voice) to be unintelligible
  5. to be close or intimate with (someone)
  6. to fell the seam, plane the edges
  7. (of fish, meat) to mix with condiments and oil all together and cook partially

Adverb

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. in one lump

Classifier

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. numerical classifier used in counting round, globular things

Particle

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. particle suffixed to some nouns to denote: all, entire, whole
  2. particle suffixed to a noun to denote an entity
  3. particle suffixed to a noun to convey the sense of it being very much in evidence
  4. particle suffixed to some verbs to form verbal nouns and convey the sense of being contrived or hollow

Noun

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လုံး • (lum:)

  1. word suffixed to some nouns to denote wholeness or roundness

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Pa'o Karen

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Etymology

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From Proto-Karen *loŋᴮ (“stone, rock”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *loŋ¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen လၢၢ် (luẖ), Western Kayah ꤜꤟꤢꤪ (lo̤a).

Pronunciation

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  • (Northern Pa'o) IPA(key): /loŋ⁵³/
  • (Southern Pa'o) IPA(key): /loŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

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လုံး (transliteration needed)

  1. stone; rock
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