ခံ

See also: ခ, ခဲ့, and ခွဲ

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hkam • ALA-LC: khaṃ • BGN/PCGN: hkan • Okell: hkañ

Noun

ခံ • (hkam)

1. karanda, Carissa carandas

Derived terms

• ခံသီး (hkamsi:)
• ခံစပ် (hkamcap)
• ခံပွင့် (hkampwang.)

Verb

ခံ • (hkam)

1. to accept
2. to receive

Derived terms

• လက်ခံ (lakhkam)

Verb

ခံ • (hkam)

1. to bear
2. to endure
3. to suffer
4. to tolerate

Derived terms

• ခံစား (hkamca:)
• ထောက်ခံ (htaukhkam)

Verb

ခံ • (hkam)

1. to resist, to withstand

Verb

ခံ • (hkam)

1. to enjoy

Further reading

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

Mon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɔm/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: ခမ်

Verb

ခံ (kham)

1. to bear up to catch in falling to catch hold of.

Noun

ခံ (kham)

1. small basket used for offerings to spirits.

References

• Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

S'gaw Karen

S'gaw Karen cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ခံ (khee)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *k-hnejᴬ (“two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (“two”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဏီ့ (nî), Western Pwo နံၫ, Pa'o Karen နီ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰí/
• (Kayin State) IPA^(key): /kʰi³³/
• (Chiang Rai) IPA^(key): /kʰi³³/

Numeral

ခံ • (khee)

1. two

Etymology 2

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kləj. Cognate with Western Pwo ခဲၫ့, Eastern Pwo ခါင့် (khâiɴ), Manipuri ꯊꯤ (thee).

Noun

ခံ • (khee)

1. (anatomy) rear, buttocks