Where does “စကားပလ္လင်ခံ” come from?

စကားပလ္လင်ခံ (Burmese) comes from Burmese ပလ္လင်, from Pali pallaṅka, from Sanskrit पर्यङ्क — furniture for lying down: a bed, a couch.

စကားပလ္လင်ခံ (Burmese): to make introductory remarks to broach a subject, preface one's speech with appropriate remarks

Definitions

  1. to make introductory remarks to broach a subject, preface one's speech with appropriate remarks

Ancestry of “စကားပလ္လင်ခံ”, step by step

စကားပလ္လင်ခံ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ပလ္လင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseပလ္လင်throne
2Palipallaṅkathrone; sofa; couch; cross-legged sitting
3Sanskritपर्यङ्कfurniture for lying down: a bed, a couch

via Burmese စကား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစကားlanguage; word
2Palicampaka

via Burmese ခံ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseခံkaranda, Carissa carandas; to accept; to receive
Every word from Sanskrit पर्यङ्कEvery word from Pali pallaṅkaEvery word from Burmese ပလ္လင်
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