ဖရုံ

Burmese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖူးရုံ, which is derived from ဖူး (hpu:, “plump, swollen”) +‎ ရှုံ့ (hrum., “contracted, shrunk, concave”) due to its shape.

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဖ'ရုံ

IPA^(key): /pʰəjòʊɴ/

Romanization: MLCTS: hpa.rum • ALA-LC: pharuṃ • BGN/PCGN: hpăyon • Okell: hpăyouñ

Noun

ဖရုံ • (hpa.rum)

Derived terms

ကျောက်ဖရုံ (kyaukhpa.rum)
ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:)
ရွှေဖရုံ (hrwehpa.rum)
ရွှေဖရုံပင် (hrwehpa.rumpang)
ရွှေဖရုံသီး (hrwehpa.rumsi:)

References

“ဖရုံ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

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