နှံ

See also: နှံ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n̥àɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hnam • ALA-LC: nhaṃ • BGN/PCGN: hnan • Okell: hnañ

Etymology 1

Despite MED grouping the senses together, the "spike of grain" sense is probably not related to the "grasshopper" sense, and is derived by STEDT from a Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-nam (“ear, spike of grain”). Compare Lahu [Term?] (ɔ³¹ nu³³, “ear of grain”). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 穰 (OC *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, “stalk of grain”).

Noun

နှံ • (hnam)

  1. (same as အနှံ (a.hnam)) ear, spike (of grain)
  2. (same as နှံကောင် (hnamkaung)) grasshopper
Derived terms
  • ကောက်ပဲသီးနှံ (kaukpai:si:hnam)
  • စပါးနှံ (ca.pa:hnam)
  • နှံကောင် (hnamkaung)
  • နှံစားပြောင်း (hnamca:praung:)
  • နှံဖြတ်ပိုး (hnamhpratpui:)
  • သီးနှံ (si:hnam)
  • အနှံ (a.hnam)

Etymology 2

Verb

နှံ • (hnam)

  1. to entrust
  2. (colloquial) to hit, strike, beat
  3. (figuratively, colloquial) to speak or act to hurt someone
Derived terms
  • ဇနီးမောင်နှံ (ja.ni:maunghnam)
  • ထိုးနှံ (htui:hnam)
  • ပေါင်နှံ (paunghnam)
  • မြှုပ်နှံ (hmruphnam)
  • မောင်နှံ (maunghnam)
  • ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံ (rang:hni:hmruphnam)
  • သက်နှံ (sakhnam)
  • သစ္စာနှံ (saccahnam)
  • သမီးမောင်နှံ (sa.mi:maunghnam)
  • အပ်နှံ (aphnam)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AM Finals (24. to Entrust (for a time))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 42

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