အုံး

See also: အုံ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔóʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: um: • ALA-LC: ʼuṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: on: • Okell: oùñ
  • Homophone: အုန်း (un:)

Etymology 1

Usually connected to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-kum, but the loss of the initial velar is irregular.

Noun

အုံး • (um:)

  1. pillow
  2. sheaves used to prop up paddy sheaves

Verb

အုံး • (um:)

  1. to pillow (one's head on something)

Derived terms

  • ကုလားအုံးဆောင်းထပ် (ku.la:um:hcaung:htap)
  • ခေါင်းအုံး (hkaung:um:)
  • ခေါင်းအုံးစွပ် (hkaung:um:cwap)
  • ပွေ့အုံး (pwe.um:)
  • မှီအုံး (hmium:)
  • အုံးတား (um:ta:)
  • အုံးလွဲ (um:lwai:)

Etymology 2

Verb

အုံး • (um:)

  1. to bake in live coal
Derived terms
  • မီးအုံး (mi:um:)

Further reading

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