စံကား

စံကား

Burmese

စံကားပန်း (Magnolia champaca)

Etymology

Borrowed from Pali စမ္ပက (campaka).

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဇံ'ဂါး
• IPA^(key): /zəɡá/
• Romanization: MLCTS: camka: • ALA-LC: caṃkāʺ • BGN/PCGN: zăga: • Okell: săkà
• Homophone: စကား (ca.ka:)

Noun

စံကား • (camka:)

1. champac (Magnolia champaca, syn. Michelia champaca[1])

   Synonym: စံကားဝါ (camka:wa)

   Meronym: စံပါ (campa)

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• စံကားစိမ်း (camka:cim:)
• တရုတ်စံကား (ta.rutcamka:)

References

1. “စံကား (pron. စဂါး)” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 361.