ပုံ

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pòʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: pum • ALA-LC: puṃ • BGN/PCGN: pon • Okell: pouñ

Etymology 1

Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Tibetan བབས (babs, shape, form, appearance), དབྱིབས (dbyibs, shape, form, figure) and Old Chinese (OC *pqab, “law, norm”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Neither comparandum given above looks great, especially not the Chinese. (OC *bomʔ, “model, pattern, mold”) seems like a much closer phonetic and semantic match, and Luce happens to give it as a cognate.[1]

Noun

ပုံ (pum)

  1. shape; form; figure
  2. picture (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc.); diagram, illustration; figure
  3. tale; story (account of events)
  4. appearance; manner
  5. (on official documents) term equivalent to the employment of the word 'signed', attesting to the authenticity of the document and the authority promulgating it
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (puṁ "kind of drum"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. See the entry's alternative form for more.”

Noun

ပုံ (pum)

  1. Alternative form of ဗုံ (bum, a kind of drum)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (puṁ "heap up, amass"). Luce gives Old Chinese (OC *bɯn, *bɯnʔ) as a cognate.[2]

Verb

ပုံ (pum)

  1. to pile, pile up
  2. to be numerous

Noun

ပုံ (pum)

  1. pile, part, portion

Classifier

ပုံ (pum)

  1. numerical classifier for piles of material

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UM Finals (18. Form; Model; Marks)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 46
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UM Finals (19. Heap; Grave; Tumulus)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 46

Further reading

Mon

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ပုံ (pum).

Pronunciation

Noun

ပုံ (pɔm)

  1. story

References

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