ပုစွန်

Alternative forms

ပုဇွန် (pu.jwan)

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (puʼ-cwan "crabs, lobsters, shrimps"), and Luce adduces no cognates.^[1] The first syllable ပု (pu.) could be from the "short, dwarfish" sense, though စွန် (cwan) as "kite (bird)" doesn't seem to make sense; how are crustaceans "little birds"? Unless crustaceans are "little food for birds", though such an interpretation doesn't seem clear.”

Pronunciation

Phonetic respelling: ဗု'ဇွန်

IPA^(key): /bəzʊ̀ɴ/

Romanization: MLCTS: pu.cwan • ALA-LC: pucvanʻ • BGN/PCGN: băzun • Okell: păsuñ

Noun

ပုစွန် • (pu.cwan)

general term for prawn, shrimp, crab, lobster, scampi, other crustaceans, etc.

Derived terms

ကင်းပုစွန် (kang:pu.cwan)
ပုစွန်ကျား (pu.cwankya:)
ပုစွန်ကျော့ (pu.cwankyau.)
ပုစွန်ချဉ် (pu.cwanhkyany)
ပုစွန်ခြေကြွေ (pu.cwanhkre-krwe)
ပုစွန်ခြောက် (pu.cwanhkrauk)
ပုစွန်ငါးပိ (pu.cwannga:pi.)
ပုစွန်စာ (pu.cwanca)
ပုစွန်ဆိတ် (pu.cwanhcit)
ပုစွန်ဆီ (pu.cwanhci)
ပုစွန်တာရာ (pu.cwantara)
ပုစွန်တုပ် (pu.cwantup)
ပုစွန်တုပ်ကွေး (pu.cwantupkwe:)
ပုစွန်ဖွဲ (pu.cwanhpwai:)
ပုစွန်ဖောင် (pu.cwanhpaung)
ပုစွန်လက်မစည် (pu.cwanlakma.cany)
ပုစွန်လုံး (pu.cwanlum:)
ပဲပုစွန် (pai:pu.cwan)
ရွှေပုစွန်ခြောက် (hrwepu.cwanhkrauk)
လယ်ပုစွန်လုံး (laipu.cwanlum:)

References

[1]
Luce, G. H. (1981) “-AN Finals (49. Prawn, Crab, Shrimp, etc.)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 54