ကြုံ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: krum • ALA-LC: kruṃ • BGN/PCGN: kyon • Okell: couñ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *k/g-r(u/i)m (“to meet”); cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (khrum, “to meet, converge, copulate”) (STEDT).

Verb

ကြုံ • (krum)

  1. to meet or happen by chance
  2. to be opportune
Derived terms
  • ကြုံကြိုက် (krumkruik)
  • ခရီးကြုံ (hka.ri:krum)
  • ဆူကြုံနိမ့်မြင့်မရွေး (hcu-krumnim.mrang.ma.rwe:)
  • တွေ့ကြုံ (twe.krum)
  • လမ်းကြုံ (lam:krum)
  • လှေကြုံစီး (hle-krumci:)
  • လူကြုံ (lu-krum)
  • အတွေ့အကြုံ (a.twe.a.krum)
  • အရေးကြုံ (a.re:krum)

Etymology 2

Adjective

ကြုံ • (krum)

  1. thin, skinny
Derived terms
  • ကြုံလှီ (krumhli)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UM Finals (5. Particles; worn away)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 45

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.