စဉ်း

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪ́ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cany: • ALA-LC: cañʻʺ • BGN/PCGN: sin: • Okell: sìñ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *dzi(k/ŋ) (“to split, mince”); cognate with Mizo tsìk (“to cut (metal) by use of chisel and hammer”). Note also perhaps Old Chinese 胾 (OC *ʔsrɯs, “to mince”) (Luce, 1981).

Verb

စဉ်း • (cany:)

  1. to mince, cut, or chop into small pieces
Derived terms
  • ချိန်စဉ်းလဲ (hkyincany:lai:)
  • ငစဉ်းလဲ (nga.cany:lai:)
  • စဉ်းကော (cany:kau:)
  • စဉ်းငယ် (cany:ngai)
  • စဉ်းစဉ်းစားစား (cany:cany:ca:ca:)
  • စဉ်းတီတုံး (cany:titum:)
  • တံစဉ်း (tamcany:)
  • လက်စဉ်း (lakcany:)

Etymology 2

Noun

စဉ်း • (cany:)

  1. steelyard
  2. (also စဉ်းချိန်ခွင် (cany:hkyinhkwang)) arrowhead, pile
Derived terms
  • စဉ်းစဉ်းစားစား (cany:cany:ca:ca:)
  • စဉ်းစား (cany:ca:)
  • စဉ်းစားခန်းဝင် (cany:ca:hkan:wang)
  • စဉ်းလဲ (cany:lai:)
  • စဉ်းသွား (cany:swa:)

Further reading

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