အာမခံ

Burmese

Etymology

From Pali āma +‎ ခံ (hkam, “to endure, resist, accept”).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: အာမဂံ
• IPA^(key): /ʔàma̰ɡàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ama.hkam • ALA-LC: ʼāmakhaṃ • BGN/PCGN: ama.gan • Okell: amáhkañ

(for the "insurance" sense):

• IPA^(key): /ʔàma̰kʰàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: ama.hkam • ALA-LC: ʼāmakhaṃ • BGN/PCGN: ama.hkan • Okell: amáhkañ

Noun

အာမခံ • (ama.hkam)

1. pledge, surety, assurance, guaranty
2. guarantor
3. insurance

Verb

အာမခံ • (ama.hkam)

1. to promise, guarantee, assure

Derived terms

• မီးအာမခံ (mi:ama.hkam)
• အသက်အာမခံ (a.sak-ama.hkam)
• အာမခံကြွေး (ama.hkamkrwe:)
• အာမခံကြေး (ama.hkamkre:)
• အာမခံငွေ (ama.hkamngwe)
• အာမခံစနစ် (ama.hkamca.nac)
• အာမခံစာချုပ် (ama.hkamcahkyup)
• အာမခံတင် (ama.hkamtang)
• အာမခံထား (ama.hkamhta:)
• အာမခံပစ္စည်း (ama.hkampaccany:)
• အာမခံပေး (ama.hkampe:)
• အာမခံရ (ama.hkam-ra.)
• အာမခံသေတ္တာ (ama.hkamsetta)

Descendants

• Pa'o Karen: အာႏမခံႏ

Further reading

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