တံခွန်
Burmese
Etymology
တံ (tam, “rod”) + ခွန် (hkwan, “long-handled ax”).
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ဒံ'ဂွန်
- IPA(key): /dəɡʊ̀ɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: tamhkwan • ALA-LC: taṃkhvanʻ • BGN/PCGN: dăgun • Okell: tăhkuñ
Noun
တံခွန် • (tamhkwan)
- pennant, penon
- Burmese diacritic -်, a pennant-like ligature placed on top of the final consonant to delete the vowel sound အ (a.)
- Synonym: အသတ် (a.sat)
Derived terms
- ကြယ်တံခွန် (kraitamhkwan)
- တံခွန်တိုင် (tamhkwantuing)
- ရေတံခွန် (retamhkwan)
- လေတံခွန် (letamhkwan)
Further reading
- “တံခွန်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.