Where does “တရုတ်စံကား” come from?

တရုတ်စံကား (Burmese) comes from Burmese စကား, from Pali campaka.

တရုတ်စံကား (Burmese): frangipani

Definitions

  1. frangipani

Ancestry of “တရုတ်စံကား”, step by step

တရုတ်စံကား traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese စကား

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseစကားlanguage; word
2Palicampaka—

via Burmese တရုတ်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတရုတ်Chinese language
Every word from Pali campaka →Every word from Burmese စကား →