စကားလုံး

Burmese

Etymology

စကား (ca.ka:, “language, word”) +‎ လုံး (lum:, “round object”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇ'ဂါး'လုံး
• IPA^(key): /zəɡəlóʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ca.ka:lum: • ALA-LC: cakāʺluṃʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăgălon: • Okell: săkăloùñ

Noun

စကားလုံး • (ca.ka:lum:)

1. word

Synonyms

• ပဒ (pa.da.)
• ပုဒ် (pud)

Further reading

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