လိမ်

See also: လိမ့် and လိမ်း

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lèɪɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lim • ALA-LC: limʻ • BGN/PCGN: lein • Okell: leiñ
  • Homophone: လိင် (ling)

Etymology 1

Not given etymology by STEDT (lim "twist; be deceitful"), while Luce compares Old Chinese 緝 (OC *sʰib, “to sew, twist”), Tibetan སྒྲིམ (sgrim, “to twist together”);[1] the Old Chinese reconstruction makes the Chinese comparison phonetically doubtful. Compare also Mon လီ (“to lie”); the Burmese may have been borrowed from the Mon, in this case.

Verb

လိမ် • (lim)

  1. to twist, be twisted
  2. to pinch
    ပါးလိမ် ― pa:lim ― to pinch (one's) cheek[2]
  3. to lie, tell a lie, deceive
    ငါ့ကိုမလိမ်နဲ့။ ― nga.kuima.limnai.|| ― Don't tell me lies![3]
  4. to cheat, swindle
Derived terms
  • ကြောင်လိမ်လှေကား (kraunglimhleka:)
  • ခြေချင်းလိမ် (hkrehkyang:lim)
  • စကားလိမ် (ca.ka:lim)
  • ဆင်လိမ် (hcanglim)
  • ဆလိမ် (hca.lim)
  • ဆွဲလိမ် (hcwai:lim)
  • တွန့်လိမ် (twan.lim)
  • နန်းလိမ် (nan:lim)
  • နို့လိမ် (nui.lim)
  • ပင်လိမ် (panglim)
  • ပိန်မသာလိမ်မသာ (pinma.salimma.sa)
  • မြွေလိမ်မြွေကောက် (mrwelimmrwekauk)
  • မလိမ်တမာ (ma.limta.ma)
  • မလိမ်မိုးမလိမ္မာ (ma.limmui:ma.limma)
  • လက်တစ်လုံးခြားလိမ် (laktaclum:hkra:lim)
  • လည်လိမ်နာ (lanylimna)
  • လိမ်ကောက် (limkauk)
  • လိမ်ညာ (limnya)
  • လိမ်ဖည် (limhpany)
  • လိမ်ဖည်ဖည် (limhpanyhpany)
  • လိမ်ယှက် (limhyak)
  • လိမ်လည် (limlany)
  • လူလိမ် (lulim)
  • ဝါကြိတ်လိမ် (wa-kritlim)

Etymology 2

Noun

လိမ် • (lim)

  1. a kind of large timber tree of family Combretaceae
    1. Combretum pyrifolium, syn. Terminalia pyrifolia[3]
    2. Indian silver grey wood (Terminalia bialata);[2] yields timber.
See also

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-IM Finals (12. to Twist; Deceitful)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 44
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “လိမ် (ပင်), 1; လိမ်, 2” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 909.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ōno, Tōru (2000) ビルマ(ミャンマー)語辞典 [Burmese dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Daigakushorin, →ISBN, page 665

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