ရင်ခွဲရုံ

Burmese

Etymology

ရင် (rang, “breast, chest”) +‎ ခွဲ (hkwai:, “to split, dissect”) +‎ ရုံ (rum, “building”), i.e. the building where corpses are dissected in the chest and otherwise prepared.

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: ရင်ဂွဲရုံ
  • IPA(key): /jɪ̀ɴɡwɛ́jòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: ranghkwai:rum • ALA-LC: raṅʻkhvairuṃ • BGN/PCGN: yin-gwè:yon • Okell: yiñhkwèyouñ

Noun

ရင်ခွဲရုံ • (ranghkwai:rum)

  1. morgue, mortuary

Further reading

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