ခရိုင်
Appearance
Burmese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 鄉 (OC *qʰaŋ), and 巷 (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 央 (*qaŋ, “middle”), Tibetan དཀྲུང (dkrung, “centre”), and Jingpho mărung (“centre”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Phonetic respelling: ခ'ရိုင်
- IPA(key): /kʰəjàɪɴ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hka.ruing • ALA-LC: kharuiṅʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkăyaing • Okell: hkăyaiñ
Noun
[edit]ခရိုင် • (hka.ruing)
- district (administrative unit)
- (historical) region within a state
- (archaic) a particular place or residence such as နတ်ခရိုင်
- runner (the ring which holds the spokes of an umbrella and moves on the shaft); central part of umbrella frame
- shrine for nats
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ မြန်မာစကားအဖွင့်ကျမ်း-ပထမတွဲ (in Burmese), 1962
Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ခရိုင် (khariuŋ)
- enclosure for animals pen corral cage box-trap sty.
- ဒဳပၠောပ်ထောံဂၠဴပ္ဍဲခရိုၚ်။
- dīplopthoṃglaopḍoakhariuṅ.
- Drive the cattle into the pen.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
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