လုံ့လ

Burmese

Etymology

Of unclear origin, though STEDT considers the first syllable, လုံ့ (lum.), to be related to the second syllable of နှလုံး (hna.lum:, “heart”).

လုလ္လ (lulla.), an obsolete spelling, seems to be an attempt to Palicize the word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lo̰ʊɴla̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lum.la. • ALA-LC: luṃʹla • BGN/PCGN: lon.la. • Okell: loúñlá

Noun

လုံ့လ • (lum.la.)

  1. diligence, industry

Derived terms

  • လုံ့လစိုက် (lum.la.cuik)
  • လုံ့လထုတ် (lum.la.htut)
  • လုံ့လပယောဂ (lum.la.pa.yau:ga.)
  • လုံ့လဝီရိယ (lum.la.wiri.ya.)

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