ဆေးရုံ

→ Shan: သေးယူင်ႇ (sée yùung)

ဆေး (hce:, “medicine”) + ရုံ (rum, “building”).


သွား

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/p-wa (“tooth”). Cognate with Jingpho wa (“tooth”) and Tibetan སོ (so).


ကျပ်

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gyap (cf. Chinese 狹／狭 (xiá, “narrow”)).

(to be) tight (pushed or pulled together)


သည်းခြေ

သည်း (sany:, “liver”) + ခြေ (hkre, “bile”).


လျှာ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-laj ~ s-lej. Cognate with Tibetan ལྕེ (lce) and Chinese 舌 (shé).


အသည်း

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သည်း (sany:, “liver”).

af

liver (large organ in the body; this organ used for food)


နှပ်

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nap (“snot”). Cognate with နှာ (hna, “nose; errhine, snuff”) and with Tibetan སྣབས (snabs, “snot”).

snot, nasal mucus (mucous discharge from the nose)


နို့

stud anchoring the traverse guy ropes on a dragon boat


သွေး

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t. Cognate with Chinese 血 (xuè) and Nuosu ꌦ (sy).

blood (vital liquid flowing in animal bodies)


အရေ

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ရေ (re, “skin”).

skin (outer covering of the body), hide, pelt


အရိုး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ရိုး (rui:, “bone”).


ပါး

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ba² (“thin”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“thin, flat”). Cognate with Nuosu ꁧ (bbo), Jingpho pha (“thin”), Drung ba (“thin”) (> svba (“to make thin”)), S'gaw Karen ဘူ (boo, “thin”), Old Chinese 薄 (OC *baːɡ, “thin, flimsy”) (STEDT).
The "send" sense is equated with the "thin" sense by MED, though STEDT apparently separates the two and gives no etymology for "send" (pâ "send ( by hand or person )").

thin (having little thickness; very narrow; slender; flimsy)


ပါး

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ba² (“cheek”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m/s-ba (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Cognate with Akha [script needed] (bà, “cheek”) (STEDT).

inh

cheek (soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes)


ပါး

→ Shan: ပႃး (páa)

(Buddhism, nobility, honorific) numeral classifier for sacred objects or persons


အသား

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + သား (sa:, “meat”).


အတောင်

feather (branching, hair-like structure that grows on the wings of birds)


အမြီး

အ (a.) + မြီး (mri:), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj.


ချို

(colloquial) to not do anything to the fullest extent; to not go full out


နားရွက်

ear (external part of the organ of hearing), outer ear, auricle, pinna


နှာခေါင်း

နှာ (hna, “nose”) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”)


အမွေး

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + မွေး (mwe:, “hair, fur”).

af

hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)


ဆံပင်

hcampang (romanization)
ပင် (classifier)

ဆံ (hcam, “hair”) + ပင် (pang, classifier for long strands).

com

hair (pigmented keratinaceous growth on the human head)


ပါးစပ်

mouth (opening of an animal through which food is ingested)


မျက်စိ

The first syllable is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-mjak ~ s-mik (“eye”) (whence Old Chinese 目 (OC *muɡ, “idem”)) (STEDT).


နား

Combining form of အနား (a.na:, “vicinity”).

သင်္ကြန်နား


ခြေ

Inherited from Old Burmese ခြိယ် (khriy), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj (“foot, footstool”).

inh

particle suffixed to nouns to denote a collection of things or persons


ခေါင်း

particle used in counting skeins of yarn and the like


ခေါင်း

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”), and thus related to Etymology 1 (STEDT).

အခေါင်း အခေါင်း#Burmese


လက်

Inherited from Old Burmese လက် (lak), ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak (“hand”). Cognate with Tibetan ལག (lag, “hand, arm”) and Nuosu ꇇ (lot, “hand”) (STEDT).

numerical classifier for counting turns in the game of dice


ခြေထောက်

ခြေ (hkre, “foot”) + ထောက် (htauk, “to support”).


ဒူးခေါင်း

ဒူး (du:, “knee”) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”)


တောင်ပံ

From တောင် (taung, “wing”) + an element of unclear interpretation and origin ပံ (pam).


ဗိုက်

my-noun

ဗိုက် • (buik)

According to STEDT, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-puːk (“belly; vitals; hollow object; cave”), whence Old Chinese 腹 (OC *puɡ, “belly, abdomen”). However, the -uik final suggests a borrowing from Mon; as noted on the page for the Chinese term, similar words exist in Mon-Khmer, suggesting an areal relation or a very deep inheritance past the point of reconstructability.


ဒူး

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *du-k (“elbow, knee”); cognate with Galo [Term?] (a du, “forearm span”), Akha [script needed] (kuiˇ du, “lower leg from knee down”) (STEDT).


ပေါင်

The "thigh" sense is from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(p/b)waŋ (“hips, buttocks, tail, anus”), and cognate with Tibetan ཕོངས (phongs, “buttock”) (STEDT). Luce adduces no further possible cognates for the "thigh" sense.
The "add, attach" and "pawn, mortgage" senses are linked with the "thigh" sense by MED (perhaps as "thighs" are an "attachment" to the body), but apparently separated by STEDT and given no etymology (poŋ "superadd lengthwise; attach to the side of", "pawn, mortgage"). Luce combines the "add" and "pawn" meanings together etymologically (perhaps via semantic association of "putting side-by-side (attaching)" with "pawning items that are juxtaposed"), though adduces no cognates.


အူ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wu (“belly; stomach; intestine; kidney”). Cognate with Nuosu ꃶ (vu), Tangut 𗎨 (*wju², “intestines”).


နှလုံး

Likely from an earlier unattested form *နှစ်လုံး (*hnaclum:), from the same နှစ် (hnac) found in အနှစ် (a.hnac, “substance, yolk”) (ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-nik (“heart, mind”)), + လုံး (lum:, “round object”) (STEDT: hnə lûm ( < hnac-lûm) "heart").


ဆေး

hce: (romanization)
မည် (classifier)
လုံး (classifier)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tsəj (“medicine; juice; paint”). Compare Nuosu ꋌ (cy) (as in ꁬꋌ (bbut cy)), Lolopo naxcir (“medicine”), Naxi cher'ee (“medicine”), Tibetan རྩི (rtsi), Old Chinese 漆 (OC *sʰiɡ, “lacquer, paint”).

medicine (substance which promotes healing)


ကျောက်

my-noun

ကျောက် • (kyauk)

Inherited from Old Burmese က္လောက် (klok), from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *k-lok ~ k-loŋ (“stone”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”). Perhaps cognate with Old Chinese 玉 (OC *ŋoɡ, “jade”) (STEDT).

inh

(medicine) calculus, gallstone, kidney stone


ပခုံး

Compound from *ပ (*pa.) (from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“to carry (on back); shoulder”) or *p(r)ak ~ r-pak (“shoulder”), likely ပိုး (pui:, “to carry on back”)) and ခုံး (hkum:, “arched, convex”).


ဘီး

Derived by STEDT from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gʷəy² (“comb”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ʔ-gʷəy-s (“comb (for hair)”), and compared with Mizo [Term?] (khuih, “comb”). Note also more overt similarities to Old Chinese 篦 (OC *piː, *bis, “fine-tooth comb”).

inh

comb (toothed implement for grooming the hair)


ဘီး

The closest possible cognate is Lhao Vo pyi" (“wheel-belt”).

wheel (circular device facilitating movement or transportation)


ဝမ်း

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *pʷam (“belly, stomach, waist”), which appears to be related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-bʷam ~ s-bʷap (“to swell; swollen, fat, thick; rounded part, mountain, hill”) (STEDT). Cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (pù-hpam, “stomach”), as well as, according to Luce, Old Chinese 範 (OC *bomʔ, “mold; pattern”); a more distant cognate from *s-bʷa(m/p) is Old Chinese 胖 (OC *pʰaːns, “fat (adjective)”).


နှာ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-na ~ s-naːr (“nose”). Cognate with Tibetan སྣ (sna, “nose”).

inh

errhine, snuff, sternutatory (substance)


မုတ်ဆိတ်

my-noun

မုတ်ဆိတ် • (muthcit)

Borrowed from Hindi मूछ (mūch, “mustache”).


လည်ချောင်း

According to MED, from လည် (lany, “neck”) + ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “cough”), though the second component is likely better-interpreted as "throat"; see there for more.


မျက်မှန်

myakhman (romanization)
လက် (classifier)

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + မှန် (hman, “glass”)

affix

မျက်မှန်တလက်


ဝမ်းဆွဲ

ဝမ်း (wam:, “womb”) + ဆွဲ (hcwai:, “pulling”)


လက်သည်

လက် (lak, “arm”) + -သည် (-sany, “practitioner”)


မျက်တောင်

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + တောင် (taung, “mountain”)

eyelash (hair growing on the edge of an eyelid)


မျက်နှာ

မျက်- (myak-) + နှာ (hna), literally “eye and nose”.


မေးစေ့

မေး (me:, “lower jaw”) + စေ့ (ce., “protuberance”)


ခြေဖနောင့်

/t͡ɕʰèbəna̰ʊɴ/

ခြေ (hkre, “foot”) + ဖနောင့် (hpa.naung., “heel”)


ဂျင်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-gyaŋ¹ (“to spin, rotate; top (toy)”), with no known cognates outside of Lolo-Burmese. Cognate with Akha [script needed] (jaw ̬jaw ̬, “to surround, go around”) (STEDT).


ဆံ

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam (“hair on the head”).


အဖျား

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) + ဖျား (hpya:, “extremity, tip, head”).


ဖျား

အဖျား အဖျား#Burmese


ဆရာဝန်

desc

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Shan: သြႃႇဝုၼ်ႇ (sràa wùn)

→ Jingpho: săra wun / tsi săra wun

/sʰa̰jàwʊ̀ɴ/

ဆရာ (hca.ra, “teacher”) + ဝန် (wan, “responsibility”).


ဝှေးစေ့

ဝှေး (hwe:) + စေ့ (ce.). Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d(w)əy (“egg; testicle”) (STEDT).


ကျင်ချောင်း

/t͡ɕɪ̀ɴt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/


အာယုဗ္ဗေဒ

Borrowed from Pali āyubbeda, from Sanskrit आयुर्वेद (āyurveda).


ယောနိ

Borrowed from Pali yoni (“womb; origin”), from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).


ဖရုံဆွဲ

/pʰəjòʊɴzwɛ́/


ဆေးခန်း

ဆေး (hce:, “medicine”) + ခန်း (hkan:, “room”).


သွားတိုက်ဆေး

my-noun

သွားတိုက်ဆေး

/θwádaɪʔsʰé/


ဗော့ဒ်ကာ

ဗော့ဒ်ကာ • (baud.ka)


ချက်

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-kyakᴴ (“rope, cord, navel”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kyak (“navel, umbilical cord, rope”), mainly attested in Lolo-Burmese and Qiangic; cognate with Akha [script needed] (tjaq, “rope”). The Tibeto-Burman root is possibly cognate with Old Chinese 弋 (OC *lɯɡ, “to shoot arrow (with string attached)”) and/or 繳 (OC *kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ, “string attached to arrow”), with the latter more phonologically likely; however, the reconstruction of the former makes a connection unlikely, and the latter's reconstruction is uncertain due to internal inconsistencies in the Middle Chinese readings (STEDT).


မျက်ခုံး

မျက်- (myak-, “pertaining to the eyes”) + အခုံး (a.hkum:, “convexity”)


ကပ်ပယ်

my-noun

ကပ်ပယ် • (kappai) (classifier ခု or လက်)

kappai (romanization)
ခု (classifier)
လက် (classifier)


လက်ချောင်း

/lɛʔt͡ɕʰáʊɴ/

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “classifier for thin, long objects”)


အဆုတ်

အ- (a.-) + ဆုတ် (hcut), the latter element inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ts(i/u)-t (“lung”). Compare Lahu ɔ̀-chɨ̂.


နို့သီးခေါင်း

my-noun

နို့သီးခေါင်း


ကျောက်ကပ်

ကျောက်ကပ် • (kyaukkap)

ကျောက် (kyauk, “the back”) + ကပ် (kap, “to come close, stick”), thus "(the organ) adjoining the back or waist".


အာရုံကြော

/ʔàjòʊɴd͡ʑɔ́/


ဖဝါး

ဖ (hpa., “extremities of the limbs”) + ဝါး (wa:, “handsbreath”); see the second component for more information in particular.

af

(anatomy) sole (of the foot); palm (of the hand)


နံရိုး

နံ (nam, “flank”) + ရိုး (rui:, “bone”).


ချေ

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *d-kəy (“barking deer, deer”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ci (“deer”), Naxi qiq (“muntjac”), S'gaw Karen တခံ (takhee, “deer”), Jingpho chäkhji (“barking deer”).


ဦးနှောက်

my-noun

ဦးနှောက် • (u:hnauk)

ဦး (u:, “head”) + နှောက် (hnauk, “brain”).


နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

my-noun

နှာခေါင်းပေါက်

/n̥əkʰáʊɴbaʊʔ/


သွားဖုံး

သွား (swa:, “tooth”) + အဖုံး (a.hpum:, “cover, lid”)


သန္ဓေ

Borrowed from Pali paṭisandhi (“reincarnation; conception”).


သားအိမ်

my-noun

သားအိမ် • (sa:im)


ကိုယ်

ကိုယ် • (kuiy)

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”). Cognate with Yao'an Lolopo ggechir (“body”), Tangut 𘓷 (*kwər¹, “body”), Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”), Old Chinese 軀 (OC *kʰo), Drung vnggeu (“body”), shigeu (“corpse”) (STEDT). Spelling is influenced by Pali kāya (“body”).
The pronoun sense is a semantic extension of the "body" sense, via "body" > "one's own body" > "oneself" (STEDT: kuiy "one's self").


နှုတ်

my-noun

နှုတ် • (hnut)


အသည်းနှလုံး

/ʔəθɛ́n̥əlóʊɴ/


လည်

The "neck" sense is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m-liŋ (“neck”) (STEDT), and cognate with Old Chinese 領 (OC *reŋʔ).
The other senses are grouped by MED, and may be etymologically connected, though other theories separate them:
* The "rotate" sense is not given etymology by STEDT (lɑȵ² "rotate / spin"). Luce gives Old Chinese 輪 (OC *run, “wheel; turns, rounds”) as a cognate. While semantically solid, the phonetics deviate enough to make a formal relation to the Chinese difficult. There is also a chance, as mentioned above, that this is a derivative of the "neck" sense; for a semantic parallel in an unrelated language, compare Latin collum (“neck”).
* The "understand" sense is not given etymology by STEDT (nɑ⁵⁵ lɛ²² "understand / grasp"). Perhaps a back-formation of နားလည် (na:lany), with the original interpretation of လည် (lany) being in the sense of "rotate" > "made rounds" > "well-versed"? Okell's "Burmese (Myanmar): An Introduction to the Spoken Language, Book 1", page 198, #18 of the Common Phrases Supplement section explains it as such. Additionally bears resemblance to Old Chinese 諒 (*ɡ·raŋs, “to forgive; to believe; truth”).


ချက်ကြိုး

/t͡ɕʰɛʔt͡ɕó/


ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်

/kòjwʊ̀ɴsʰàʊɴ/


ကိုယ်ဝန်

my-noun

ကိုယ်ဝန် • (kuiywan)

ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body, torso”) + ဝန် (wan, “burden, load”).


ဓမ္မတာဝန်

/dəmədàwʊ̀ɴ/

From Pali dhammatā (“general rule; nature”) + ဝန် (wan).


ဗိုက်ကြီး

my-verb

ဗိုက်ကြီး • (buikkri:)

ဗိုက် (buik, “stomach”) + ကြီး (kri:, “grow”)


မီးယပ်

→ Shan: မီးယၢပ်ႈ (míi yāap)


ဆီးအောင့်ရောဂါ

/sʰíʔa̰ʊɴjɔ́ɡà/

ဆီး (hci:, “urine”) + အောင့် (aung., “hamper”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “disease”)


အရေပြား

အရေ (a.re, “skin”) + ပြား (pra:, “flat”)


အဖျားဖြတ်ဆေး

အဖျား (a.hpya:) + ဖြတ် (hprat) + ဆေး (hce:)


ဩသဓ

Borrowed from Pali osadha. Cognate with Khmer ឱសថ (ʼaosɑt), Indonesian usada, Thai โอสถ (oo-sòt).


ကပ်ရောဂါ

ကပ် (kap, “catastrophe”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “disease”)


ရောဂန္တရကပ်

/jɔ́ɡàɴtəɹa̰kaʔ/

From Pali roga + Pali antara + Pali kappa.


စိတ္တဇရောဂါ

/seɪʔdəza̰jɔ́ɡà/

စိတ္တဇ (citta.ja., “insanity”) + ရောဂါ (rau:ga, “illness”)


သားအိမ်ခေါင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်ခေါင်း • (sa:imhkaung:)

/θəʔèɪɴɡáʊɴ/

From သားအိမ် (sa:im) + ခေါင်း (hkaung:, “head”).


သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း

my-noun

သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း • (sa:imlam:kraung:)

/θəʔèɪɴláɴd͡ʑáʊɴ/

From သားအိမ် (sa:im, “womb”) + လမ်းကြောင်း (lam:kraung:, “channel”).


မီးယပ်ပညာ

/míjaʔpjɪ̀ɴɲà/

မီးယပ် (mi:yap, “menses”) + ပညာ (pa.nya, “knowledge”).


မျက်လုံး

မျက်- (myak-, “eye”) + လုံး (lum:, “round”)

prefix

Holonym: မျက်စိ (myakci.)


ရှမ်ပိန်

my-noun

ရှမ်ပိန် • (hrampin)


လက်ညှိုး

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ညှိုး (hnyui:, “to fade, to wither”)


လက်မ

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + မ (ma., “main, principal”).


လက်သူကြွယ်

/lɛʔðù+'t͡ɕwɛ̀/

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + သူကြွယ် (su-krwai, “wealthy person”)


လက်ခလယ်

လက် (lak, “arm, hand”) + ခလယ် (hka.lai, “middle, centre”)


မီးဖွားခွင့်

/mípʰwákʰwɪ̰ɴ/

မီးဖွား (mi:hpwa:, “to give birth, deliver a child”) + ခွင့် (hkwang., “leave”)


ခွဲစိတ်ကုပညာ

From ခွဲစိတ် (hkwai:cit) + ကု (ku.) + ပညာ (pa.nya).


သွေးကင်ဆာ

/θwékɪ̀ɴsʰà/

သွေး (swe:) + ကင်ဆာ (kanghca), literally “blood cancer”.