ခံ

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See also: ခ, ခဲ့, ခွဲ, and ခံ့

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰàɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkam • ALA-LC: khaṃ • BGN/PCGN: hkan • Okell: hkañ

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (khaṁ "kind of large, leaf-shedding creeper"; said gloss appears to describe the karanda incorrectly), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Maybe related to the same unidentified source that gives English karanda?”

Noun

ခံ • (hkam)

  1. karanda (Carissa carandas), a kind of shrub or small tree
Derived terms

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 (khaṁ "receive, endure"), while Luce gives Old Chinese 感 (OC *kɯːmʔ, “to touch, feel, suffer”) as a cognate.”

Verb

ခံ • (hkam)

  1. to catch, intercept (something falling)
  2. to accept, receive, collect
  3. to bear, endure, stand, suffer, tolerate
  4. to resist, withstand
  5. to enjoy
  6. to obstruct, cushion, place something under, be in the way
  7. to last

Adverb

ခံ • (hkam)

  1. talking back, fighting back

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AM Finals (6. to Receive, Enjoy, Suffer, Endure)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 41

Further reading

Mon

Pronunciation

Verb

ခံ (kham)

  1. to bear up to catch in falling to catch hold of.

Noun

ခံ (kham)

  1. small basket used for offerings to spirits.

References

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

S'gaw Karen

S'gaw Karen cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ခံ (khee)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *k-hnejᴬ (“two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-ni-s (“two”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏီ့ (nî), Western Kayah ꤔꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (nyē), Pa'o Karen နီ, Western Pwo နံၫ.

Pronunciation

Numeral

ခံ • (khee)

  1. two

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kləj. Cognate with Western Pwo ခဲၫ့, Eastern Pwo ခါင့် (khâiɴ), Manipuri ꯊꯤ (thi).

Noun

ခံ • (khee)

  1. (anatomy) rear, buttocks

References

  1. ^ Luangthongkum, Theraphan. 2019. A View on Proto-Karen Phonology and Lexicon. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) Vol. 12.1 (2019): i-lii. ISSN: 1836-6821, DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52441
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