ရုံ

See also: ရုံး

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: rum • ALA-LC: ruṃ • BGN/PCGN: yon • Okell: youñ
  • Homophones: ယုံ (yum), ယုန် (yun)

Etymology 1

Verb

ရုံ • (rum)

  1. to wear or put on (a cloak or robe)
    Synonym: ဝတ် (wat)
Derived terms
  • ကိုယ်ရုံ (kuiyrum)
  • ခြုံရုံ (hkrum-rum)
  • ရုံဂိုဏ်း (rumguin:)
  • ဝတ်ရုံ (watrum)
  • သင်္ကန်းရုံ (sangkan:rum)
  • အပေါ်ရုံ (a.paurum)
  • အရုံဂိုဏ်း (a.rumguin:)

Etymology 2

Perhaps borrowed from Malay ruang (“tranquil part of a house; room”), and cognate with Mon ရိုၚ်, Thai โรง (roong), Khmer រោង (roong).[1]

Noun

ရုံ • (rum)

  1. clump, bush
  2. generic term for shelter, shed, building
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Particle

ရုံ • (rum)

  1. just, only (particle suffixed to a verb to convey the sense of being limited in degree or extent)
Derived terms
  • တော်ရုံတန်ရုံ (taurumtanrum)
  • ရုံမက (rumma.ka.)
  • သင့်ရုံ (sang.rum)

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Pali ārāma (“pleasure, park, monastery”). contraction of အာရာမ (arama.)

Noun

ရုံ • (rum)

  1. (Buddhism) used in the names of Buddhist monasteries
    မဟာဂန္ဓာရုံကျောင်းတိုက်
    ma.hagandharumkyaung:tuik
    Mahagandhayon Monastery

References

  1. ^ Mathias Jenny (9 August 2021) Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny, editors, 25 The national languages of MSEA: Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese‎[1] (in Burmese), De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 599–622

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