Where does “ရင်ဖုံး” come from?

ရင်ဖုံး (Burmese) comes from Burmese ရင်, from Burmese လျှင် — if.

ရင်ဖုံး (Burmese): front flap of a Myanmar jacket

Definitions

  1. front flap of a Myanmar jacket

Ancestry of “ရင်ဖုံး”, step by step

ရင်ဖုံး traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese ရင်

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseရင်breast, chest; if
2Burmeseလျှင်if

via Burmese ဖုံး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseဖုံးto cover, put a cover on something

Words derived from “ရင်ဖုံး”

Every word from Burmese လျှင် →Every word from Burmese ရင် →
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