လုံး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lu(ŋ/m) (“heart; round”). Cognate with Drung tvleum (“round”), Jingpho lum (“round”) and Tibetan ཟླུམ (zlum, “round; spherical”).

• IPA^(key): /lóʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: lum: • ALA-LC: luṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: lon: • Okell: loùñ

လုံး • (lum:)

1. round, globular, spherical
2. short and plump, rotund

• ဝိုင်း (wuing:)

လုံး • (lum:)

1. to roll something into a rounded shape
2. to wrestle, grapple with
3. (of sound) to be garbled
4. (of voice) to be unintelligible
5. to be close or intimate with (someone)
6. to fell the seam, plane the edges
7. (of fish, meat) to mix with condiments and oil all together and cook partially

လုံး • (lum:)

1. in one lump

လုံး • (lum:)

1. numerical classifier used in counting round, globular things

လုံး • (lum:)

1. particle suffixed to some nouns to denote: all, entire, whole
2. particle suffixed to a noun to denote an entity
3. particle suffixed to a noun to convey the sense of it being very much in evidence
4. particle suffixed to some verbs to form verbal nouns and convey the sense of being contrived or hollow

လုံး • (lum:)

1. word suffixed to some nouns to denote wholeness or roundness

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

From Proto-Karen *loŋᴮ (“stone, rock”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *loŋ¹ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen လၢၢ် (luẖ), Western Kayah ꤜꤟꤢꤪ (lo̤a).

• (Northern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /loŋ⁵³/
• (Southern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /loŋ⁵⁵/

လုံး (transliteration needed)

1. stone; rock