ယံ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jàɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: yam • ALA-LC: yaṃ • BGN/PCGN: yan • Okell: yañ

Etymology 1

Noun

ယံ • (yam)

  1. word indicating place
Derived terms
  • ကမ်းပါးယံ (kam:pa:yam)
  • ကမ်းယံ (kam:yam)
  • ပစ္စည်းပစ်ယံ (paccany:pacyam)
  • မိုးယံ (mui:yam)
  • ယားယံ (ya:yam)
  • ယိုးယံ (yui:yam)
  • အပေါ်ယံ (a.pauyam)
  • အပေါ်ယံကြော (a.pauyamkrau:)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pali yāma (“nightwatch”).

Noun

ယံ • (yam)

  1. watch (division of night)
Derived terms

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • yaṃ (Latin script)
  • 𑀬𑀁 (Brahmi script)
  • यं (Devanagari script)
  • যং (Bengali script)
  • යං (Sinhalese script)
  • ยํ or ยัง (Thai script)
  • ᨿᩴ (Tai Tham script)
  • ຍໍ or ຍັງ or ຢັງ (Lao script)
  • យំ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄠𑄁 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

ယံ

  1. Burmese script form of yaṃ, which is accusative singular of ယ (ya, “who (m)”)
  2. Burmese script form of yaṃ, which is accusative singular of ယာ (yā, “who (f)”)
  3. Burmese script form of yaṃ, which is nominative/accusative singular of ယ (ya, “which”)
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