စုံ

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *dzum³/¹ ~ tsum¹ (“pair, even number”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Cognate with ဆုံ (hcum, “to meet, coincide”), Old Chinese 雙 (OC *sroːŋ, “pair”) (whence Sino-Xenic borrowings including Korean 쌍 (ssang, “pair”)) (STEDT). Compare also Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”) (Schuessler (2007)), 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs, “to duplicate”).

The "jungle" sense is grouped with the "pair" sense by MED, though it is unclear if it is indeed related.

• IPA^(key): /sòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: cum • ALA-LC: cuṃ • BGN/PCGN: son • Okell: souñ

စုံ • (cum)

1. pair, couple

   မျက်လုံး တစ်စုံ

   myaklum: taccum

   a pair of eyes

   တူ တစ်စုံ

   tu taccum

   a pair of chopsticks

2. brace (of dogs, game birds, etc.)
3. set
4. both of the pair
5. even number
6. (obsolete) deep forest, jungle

စုံ • (cum)

1. to be completed
2. to be sufficient, complete in number, qualification, variety

• Mon: စုံ

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

Borrowed from Burmese စုံ (cum).

• IPA^(key): /cum/

စုံ (cum)

1. to be complete
2. to be an even number

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