စကားပလ္လင်ခံ

Burmese

Etymology

စကား (ca.ka:, “language, word”) +‎ ပလ္လင် (pallang, “throne, altar”) +‎ ခံ (hkam, “karanda shrub”), thus apparently words delivered at a throne decorated with karanda.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ဂါးပလ်'လင်ခံ
  • IPA(key): /zəɡápəlɪ̀ɴkʰàɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ca.ka:pallanghkam • ALA-LC: cakāʺpallaṅʻkhaṃ • BGN/PCGN: zăga:pălinhkan • Okell: săkàpăliñhkañ

Verb

စကားပလ္လင်ခံ • (ca.ka:pallanghkam)

  1. to make introductory remarks to broach a subject, preface one's speech with appropriate remarks
    Synonym: ပလ္လင်ခံ (pallanghkam)

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