ခရိုင်

Old Burmese variant spellings include ခရိုန် and ခြိုန်.

Probably Sino-Tibetan in origin. The word has been connected to Tibetan གྲོང་ཁྱེར (grong khyer, “city, town”), Old Chinese 鄉 (OC *qʰaŋ), and 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs) by ʾU Phoh Lat. Also compare Jingpho hkringdat (“nat shrine”), Jingpho hkringmung (“village site”), and Thai กรุง (grung)).^[1] That said, the -uing final, as well as the existence of Mon ခရိုင် (khariuŋ, “animal enclosure”), suggests that the possibility of a Mon borrowing is not out of the question.

The sense of the core runner of an umbrella has a distinct etymon; compare Old Chinese 央 (*qaŋ, “middle”), Tibetan དཀྲུང (dkrung, “centre”), and Jingpho mărung (“centre”).

• Phonetic respelling: ခ'ရိုင်
• IPA^(key): /kʰəjàɪɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hka.ruing • ALA-LC: kharuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkăyaing • Okell: hkăyaiñ

ခရိုင် • (hka.ruing)

1. district (administrative unit)
   1. (historical) region within a state
   2. (archaic) a particular place or residence such as နတ်ခရိုင်
2. runner (the ring which holds the spokes of an umbrella and moves on the shaft); central part of umbrella frame

   Synonym: ထီးခရိုင် (hti:hka.ruing)

   Holonym: ထီး (hti:)

3. shrine for nats

• “ခရိုင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
• “ခရိုင်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 266.

• IPA^(key): /kʰaʔkàŋ/

ခရိုင် (khariuŋ)

1. enclosure for animals pen corral cage box-trap sty.

   ဒဳပၠောပ်ထောံဂၠဴပ္ဍဲခရိုၚ်။

   dīplopthoṃglaopḍoakhariuṅ.

   Drive the cattle into the pen.