လွင့်

See also: လွင်

Burmese

Etymology

According to STEDT, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-lwaŋ (“body, corpse, discarded object”), with a semantic shift "discarded thing" > "to be discarded" > "blown away". See also အလောင်း (a.laung:, “corpse”).

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respelling: လွင့်
  • IPA(key): /lwɪ̰ɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lwang. • ALA-LC: lvaṅʻʹ • BGN/PCGN: lwin. • Okell: lwíñ

Verb

Burmese verb set
Base လွင့် (lwang.)
Causativeလွှင့် (hlwang.)

လွင့် • (lwang.)

  1. to be blown away
  2. to be packed off
  3. (of colors) to fade, run
  4. to flutter, stream, float

Derived terms

  • ခွေးလေခွေးလွင့် (hkwe:lehkwe:lwang.)
  • ပျံ့လွင့် (pyam.lwang.)
  • လွင့်စဉ် (lwang.cany)
  • လွင့်ပါး (lwang.pa:)
  • လူလေလူလွင့် (lulelulwang.)
  • လေလွင့် (lelwang.)
  • သွားပုပ်လေလွင့် (swa:puplelwang.)
  • သားပုပ်လေလွင့် (sa:puplelwang.)
  • အလေအလွင့် (a.lea.lwang.)

Further reading

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