သင်္ဘော

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Burmese

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သင်္ဘော

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly an Indo-Aryan loanword; compare Sanskrit पोत (pota, ship) and सपोत (sapota, having a ship). This same word is likely also reflected in Thai สำเภา (sǎm-pao), Lao ສຳເພົາ (sam phao) or ສະເພົາ (sa phao), Khmer សំពៅ (sɑmpɨw),

The "papaya" sense is perhaps because a cut papaya resembles a boat, and the "foreign" sense from foreign traders arriving by boat.

Pronunciation

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  • Phonetic respelling: သင်းဘော
  • IPA(key): /θɪ́ɴbɔ́/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: sangbhau: • ALA-LC: saṅʻbho • BGN/PCGN: thin:baw: • Okell: thìñbò

Noun

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သင်္ဘော (sangbhau:)

  1. ship; vessel[1]
  2. papaya; pawpaw (Carica papaya)[1]
    Synonym: သင်္ဘောပင် (sangbhau:pang)
    Meronym: သင်္ဘောသီး (sangbhau:si:)

Adjective

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သင်္ဘော (sangbhau:)

  1. foreign

Derived terms

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(Nouns)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Ōno, Tōru (2000) ビルマ(ミャンマー)語辞典 [Burmese dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Daigakushorin, →ISBN, page 732

Further reading

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  • သင်္ဘော” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 981.
  • သင်္ဘော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.