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)

shape; form; figure.
picture (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc.)
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)

story

References

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

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