သံ

Burmese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θàɴ/

Romanization: MLCTS: sam • ALA-LC: saṃ • BGN/PCGN: than • Okell: thañ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sjam (“iron”).

Noun

သံ • (sam)

iron
iron nail

Noun

သံ • (sam)

envoy, diplomat

Synonyms

သံတမန် (samta.man)

Derived terms

နရည်းသံ (na.rany:sam)
သံခင်းတမန်ခင်း (samhkang:ta.manhkang:)
သံတမန် (samta.man)
သံတော်ဆင့် (samtauhcang.)
သံတဲ (samtai:)
သံမှူး (samhmu:)
သံရုံး (sam-rum:)
သံအမတ် (sam-a.mat)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s(j)am-s.

Noun

သံ • (sam)

voice, sound, noise

Derived terms

အသံ (a.sam)

References

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

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

From Proto-Karen *siˀᴰ (“caterpillar”).

Noun

သံ • (thee)

caterpillar.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Karen *sejᴬ (“dead, to die”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *si⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *səj (“to die”). Cognate with Pa'o Karen သီ, Western Pwo ၥံၫ, Eastern Pwo သီ့, Western Kayah ꤞꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (thyē).

Pronunciation

(Kayin State) IPA^(key): /θi³³/
(Chiang Rai) IPA^(key): /si³³/

Verb

သံ • (thee)

to die.

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