Where does “ကမ္ဗလာ” come from?

ကမ္ဗလာ (Burmese) comes from Pali kambala, from Russian камбала, from Finnish kampela, from Finnish kampi, from Proto-Finnic kampi.

ကမ္ဗလာ (Burmese): woolen rug; orange

Definitions

  1. woolen rug; orange

Ancestry of “ကမ္ဗလာ”, step by step

ကမ္ဗလာ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Pali kambala

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Palikambalaflannel; wool; woolen; woolen clothes
2Russianкамбалаflounder, plaice, sole
3Finnishkampelaflounder, fluke, European flounder; flatfish
4Finnishkampicrank
5Proto-Finnickampi—

via Hindi कमला

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hindiकमलाan epithet of Goddess Lakshmi
2Sanskritकमला—
Every word from Proto-Finnic kampi →Every word from Finnish kampi →Every word from Finnish kampela →