ဖရုံ
Burmese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Burmese ဖူးရုံ, which is derived from ဖူး (hpu:, “plump, swollen”) + ရှုံ့ (hrum., “contracted, shrunk, concave”) due to its shape.
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: ဖ'ရုံ
- IPA(key): /pʰəjòʊɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hpa.rum • ALA-LC: pharuṃ • BGN/PCGN: hpăyon • Okell: hpăyouñ
Noun
ဖရုံ • (hpa.rum)
- pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima)
- white gourd melon, ash pumpkin, marrow (Cucurbita pepo, Pachyrhizus angulatus)
- generic term for melons and pumpkins
Derived terms
- ကျောက်ဖရုံ (kyaukhpa.rum)
- ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:)
- ဖရုံခါး (hpa.rumhka:)
- ဖရုံစိတ် (hpa.rumcit)
- ဖရုံဆွဲ (hpa.rumhcwai:)
- ဖရုံယို (hpa.rum-yui)
- ရွှေဖရုံ (hrwehpa.rum)
- ရွှေဖရုံပင် (hrwehpa.rumpang)
- ရွှေဖရုံသီး (hrwehpa.rumsi:)
- ဝက်ဖရုံ (wakhpa.rum)
Further reading
- “ဖရုံ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.