အုံ့
Burmese
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r(u/i)m (“dark; shade; dusk; twilight”); compare Old Chinese 陰 (OC *qrɯm, “overcast”) (whence Korean 음 (eum, “dark, shady”), which is particularly close in pronunciation to the Burmese).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔo̰ʊɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: um. • ALA-LC: ʼuṃʹ • BGN/PCGN: on. • Okell: oúñ
Verb
အုံ့ • (um.)
Derived terms
- မိုးအုံ့ (mui:um.)
- အုံ့ဆိုင်း (um.hcuing:)
- အုံ့ပျ (um.pya.)
- အုံ့ပုန်း (um.pun:)
- အုံ့မှိုင်း (um.hmuing:)
Further reading
- “အုံ့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.