ငံ

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Burmese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋàɴ/
Romanization: MLCTS: ngam • ALA-LC: ṅaṃ • BGN/PCGN: ngan • Okell: ngañ

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT. Bears resemblance to Old Chinese 完 (OC *ɦŋoːn, “finish, complete”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔoŋ¹ (“to win, conquer, be complete”).”

Verb

ငံ • (ngam)

(archaic) to be complete, be replete with

Derived terms

ချေငံ (hkye-ngam)
နိုင်ငံ (nuingngam, “country”)
နိုင်ငံဝင်ခွင့်လက်မှတ် (nuingngam-wanghkwang.lakhmat)
ရည်ငံ (ranyngam)
ဝင်ရိုးတန်းနိုင်ငံ (wang-rui:tan:nuingngam)
သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (samma.ta.nuingngam)
အနောက်နိုင်ငံ (a.nauknuingngam)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective