ပဉ္စရူပ

Burmese

Rendition of pyinsarupa

Etymology

ပဉ္စ (panyca., “five”) +‎ ရူပ (rupa., “beauties”), borrowed from Pali pañca (“five”) +‎ Pali rūpa (“beauties”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ပျင်စ*ရူပ
• IPA^(key): /pjɪ̀ɴsa̰ɹùpa̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: panyca.rupa. • ALA-LC: pañcarūpa • BGN/PCGN: pyinsa.rupa. • Okell: pyiñsárupá

Noun

ပဉ္စရူပ • (panyca.rupa.) (classifier ကောင်)

1. (mythology) chimeric animal with component parts of an elephant, bullock, horse, carp and tonaya (တိုးနရား (tui:na.ra:)), or alternately lion, elephant, buffalo, carp and brahminy duck (ဟင်္သာ (hangsa)).

Proper noun

ပဉ္စရူပ • (panyca.rupa.)

1. (historical) Pyinsarupa, the name of a Burmese royal barge during the pre-colonial era

References

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