ဆုံ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hcum • ALA-LC: chuṃ • BGN/PCGN: hson • Okell: hsouñ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *dzum³/¹ ~ tsum¹ (“pair, even number”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”) (STEDT). By synchronic analysis, a causative formation related to စုံ (cum, “to be completed, sufficient”); see there for more.

Verb

ဆုံ • (hcum)

Burmese verb set

Base	စုံ (cum)
Causative	ဆုံ (hcum)

1. to meet, come together, converge
2. to coincide
3. to pool or share a purchase
4. to be identical

Noun

ဆုံ • (hcum)

1. junction, intersection, confluence

Derived terms

• ခွဆုံ (hkwa.hcum)
• စကားလက်ဆုံကျ (ca.ka:lakhcumkya.)
• ဆုံချက် (hcumhkyak)
• ဆုံစည်း (hcumcany:)
• ဆုံဆို့နာ (hcumhcui.na)
• ဆုံရပ် (hcum-rap)
• ဆုံလည် (hcumlany)
• ဆုံလည်ကုလားထိုင် (hcumlanyku.la:htuing)
• တွေ့ဆုံ (twe.hcum)
• ဖူးစာဆုံ (hpu:cahcum)
• ဘုတ်ဆုံ (bhuthcum)
• မြစ်ဆုံ (mrachcum)
• မိတ်ဆုံ (mithcum)
• မိတ်ဆုံပွဲ (mithcumpwai:)
• ရေစက်ဆုံ (recakhcum)
• လက်ဆုံသား (lakhcumsa:)
• လမ်းဆုံ (lam:hcum)
• အကြောင်းဆုံ (a.kraung:hcum)
• အမြစ်ဆုံ (a.mrachcum)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(t)sum (“mortar”); cognate with Mizo [Term?] (sûm, “mortar”) (STEDT). Despite MED grouping the terms together, unclear if related to the "coincide" sense of Etymology 1. If related, perhaps the mortar was seen by Tibeto-Burman tribes as the tool where ingredients met and mashed together.

Noun

ဆုံ • (hcum)

1. mortar, mill, press, bowl (of a tobacco pipe)

Derived terms

• ကြိတ်ဆုံ (krithcum)
• ငရုတ်ဆုံ (nga.ruthcum)
• ဆီဆုံ (hcihcum)
• ဆုံကျည် (hcumkyany)
• ဆုံထုံးငါးပိ (hcumhtum:nga:pi.)
• ဆုံလည်နွား (hcumlanynwa:)
• တင်ဆုံ (tanghcum)
• တင်ပါးဆုံ (tangpa:hcum)
• သံဆုံ (samhcum)

 

Further reading

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