ဖရုံ

Burmese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Burmese ဖူးရုံ, which is derived from ဖူး (hpu:, “plump, swollen”) +‎ ရှုံ့ (hrum., “contracted, shrunk, concave”) due to its shape.

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဖ'ရုံ
• IPA^(key): /pʰəjòʊɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hpa.rum • ALA-LC: pharuṃ • BGN/PCGN: hpăyon • Okell: hpăyouñ

Noun

ဖရုံ • (hpa.rum)

1. melon
2. pumpkin

Derived terms

• ကျောက်ဖရုံ (kyaukhpa.rum)
• ကျောက်ဖရုံသီး (kyaukhpa.rumsi:)
• ရွှေဖရုံ (hrwehpa.rum)
• ရွှေဖရုံပင် (hrwehpa.rumpang)
• ရွှေဖရုံသီး (hrwehpa.rumsi:)

 

References

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