ခံ

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See also: , ခဲ့, and ခွဲ

Burmese

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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

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ခံ (hkam)

  1. karanda (Carissa carandas), a kind of shrub or small tree
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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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 (OC *kɯːmʔ, “to touch, feel, suffer”) as a cognate.[1]

Verb

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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

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ခံ (hkam)

  1. talking back, fighting back

Derived terms

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References

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  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

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ခံ (kham)

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

Noun

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ခံ (kham)

  1. small basket used for offerings to spirits.

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S'gaw Karen

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

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Karen *k-hnejᴬ (two), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (two). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏီ့ (), Western Pwo နံၫ, Pa'o Karen နီ.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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ခံ (khee)

  1. two

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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ခံ (khee)

  1. (anatomy) rear, buttocks