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ခရိုင်

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Etymology

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Old Burmese variant spellings include ခရိုန် and ခြိုန်.

Probably Sino-Tibetan in origin. The word has been connected to Tibetan གྲོང་ཁྱེར (grong khyer, city, town), Old Chinese (OC *qʰaŋ), and (OC *ɡroːŋs) by ʾU Phoh Lat. Also compare Jingpho hkringdat (nat shrine), Jingpho hkringmung (village site), and Thai กรุง (grung)).[1] That said, the -uing final, as well as the existence of Mon ခရိုင် (khariuŋ, animal enclosure), suggests that the possiblity of a Mon borrowing is not out of the question.

The sense of the core runner of an umbrella has a distinct etymon; compare Old Chinese (*qaŋ, middle), Tibetan དཀྲུང (dkrung, centre), and Jingpho mărung (centre).

Pronunciation

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  • Phonetic respelling: ခ'ရိုင်
  • IPA(key): /kʰəjàɪɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hka.ruing • ALA-LC: kharuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkăyaing • Okell: hkăyaiñ

Noun

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ခရိုင် (hka.ruing)

  1. district (administrative unit)
    1. (historical) region within a state
    2. (archaic) a particular place or residence such as နတ်ခရိုင်
  2. runner (the ring which holds the spokes of an umbrella and moves on the shaft); central part of umbrella frame
    Synonym: ထီးခရိုင် (hti:hka.ruing)
    Holonym: ထီး (hti:)
  3. shrine for nats

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ မြန်မာစကားအဖွင့်ကျမ်း-ပထမတွဲ (in Burmese), 1962

Further reading

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  • ခရိုင်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • ခရိုင်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 266.

Mon

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Noun

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ခရိုင် (khariuŋ)

  1. enclosure for animals pen corral cage box-trap sty.
    ဒဳပၠောပ်ထောံဂၠဴပ္ဍဲခရိုၚ်။
    dīplopthoṃglaopḍoakhariuṅ.
    Drive the cattle into the pen.

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