ပြောင်း

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjáʊɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: praung: • ALA-LC: proṅʻʺ • BGN/PCGN: pyaung: • Okell: pyaùñ

Etymology 1

Cognate with Tavoyan ပ္လောင်း.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (prôŋ "species of millet"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[1] Bears some resemblance to Old Chinese (OC *raŋ, “good millet”), though the lack of an initial *p- in the Old Chinese reconstruction is problematic.”

Noun

ပြောင်း (praung:)

  1. millet (any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food)
    Synonyms: ပြောင်းဆန် (praung:hcan), နှံစားပြောင်း (hnamca:praung:)
  2. maize, corn (type of grain of the species Zea mays)
    Synonyms: ပြောင်းဖူး (praung:hpu:), ခွံပြောင်း (hkwampraung:)
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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 (prôŋ "blowpipe"), and Luce adduces no cognates.[2]

Noun

ပြောင်း (praung:)

  1. tube, barrel (of a gun), blowpipe (weapon)
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Etymology 3

Likely cognate with Old Chinese (OC *prons, “to change”); note particularly similarity with Korean (byeon, change), the Korean borrowing of the Chinese term. Has also been compared with (OC *roːns, “disorder”) (Baxter, 1992), as well as with Tibetan སྤྲུལ་བ (sprul ba, to transform) (Shi, 2000).

Verb

ပြောင်း (praung:)

  1. to change, alter, transfer, shift
    တချို့တွေက ဘယ်တော့မှ ပြောင်းta.hkyui.tweka. bhaitau.hma. ma.praung:Some things never change
  2. to move
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (60. Sorghum millet)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 87
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-OṄ Finals (58. Blowpipe)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 87

Further reading

  • ပြောင်း 1 ‘millet’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 675.
  • ပြောင်း 2 ‘change’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 676.
  • ပြောင်း” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.