ဘောလုံး

Burmese

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from French ballon, with phono-semantic matching of the second syllable with the native လုံး (lum:, “classifier for round objects”), analyzed as ဘော (bhau:, “ball”) +‎ လုံး (lum:, “round object”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ́lóʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: bhau:lum: • ALA-LC: bholuṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: baw:lon: • Okell: bòloùñ

Noun

ဘောလုံး • (bhau:lum:)

  1. ball, football (ball)
  2. football, soccer (game)

Further reading

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