စုံ

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Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *dzum³/¹ ~ tsum¹ (“pair, even number”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Cognate with ဆုံ (hcum, “to meet, coincide”), Old Chinese 雙 (OC *sroːŋ, “pair”) (whence Sino-Xenic borrowings including Korean 쌍 (ssang, “pair”)) (STEDT). Compare also Thai สอง (sɔ̌ɔng, “two”) (Schuessler (2007)), 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs, “to duplicate”).

The "jungle" sense is grouped with the "pair" sense by MED, though it is unclear if it is indeed related.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cum • ALA-LC: cuṃ • BGN/PCGN: son • Okell: souñ

Noun

စုံ • (cum)

  1. pair, couple
    မျက်လုံး တစ်စုံ
    myaklum: taccum
    a pair of eyes
    တူ တစ်စုံ
    tu taccum
    a pair of chopsticks
  2. brace (of dogs, game birds, etc.)
  3. set
  4. both of the pair
  5. even number
  6. (obsolete) deep forest, jungle

Verb

စုံ • (cum)

Burmese verb set
Base စုံ (cum)
Causativeဆုံ (hcum)
  1. to be completed
  2. to be sufficient, complete in number, qualification, variety

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Mon: စုံ

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese စုံ (cum).

Pronunciation

Verb

စုံ (cum)

  1. to be complete
  2. to be an even number

References

  • Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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