ပီလောပီနံ
pinam/pìlɔ́pìnàɴ/
Cassava in Burmese is ပီလောပီနံ (pinam).
ပီလောပီနံ is a noun used to refer to the cassava root vegetable.
Meaning: root vegetable (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
The romanization is pinam. The IPA is /pìlɔ́pìnàɴ/.
Did you know?
- The Burmese word ပီလောပီနံ is actually a loanword from the Malay phrase 'Pulau Pinang', which means 'Penang Island'.
- Burmese speakers may use ပီလောပီနံ to refer to both the raw root and the various processed forms of the vegetable, such as dried flour used in cooking.
- Cassava is grown extensively in the dry zones of Myanmar, and the word ပီလောပီနံ is frequently heard in rural agricultural markets rather than high-end supermarkets.
Examples in context
- ပီလောပီနံ ကောင်းကောင်းလေးပါ။pe-law-pe-nan kaung kaung lay ba.The cassava is very good.
- ပီလောပီနံ ပြုတ်စားချင်တယ်။pe-law-pe-nan pyote sar chin tal.I want to eat boiled cassava.
- ဈေးမှာ ပီလောပီနံ ရှိသလား။zay mhar pe-law-pe-nan shi tha lar?Is there any cassava at the market?
Example conversation
A man and a woman are discussing snacks at home.
- ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zawမြတ်နိုး၊ ပီလောပီနံ စားမလား။Myat Noe, pe-law-pe-nan sar ma lar?Myat Noe, do you want to eat cassava?
- မြတ်နိုး Myat Noeဟုတ်ကဲ့၊ စားချင်ပါတယ်။hote ke, sar chin ba tal.Yes, I want to eat it.
- ဇော်ဇော် Zaw Zawပီလောပီနံက အရမ်းအရသာရှိတယ်။pe-law-pe-nan ga ayan ayathar shi tal.The cassava is very delicious.
- မြတ်နိုး Myat Noeဇော်ဇော် ချက်ပေးတာ အရမ်းကောင်းတယ်။Zaw Zaw chet pay dar ayan kaung tal.It is very good because you cooked it, Zaw Zaw.
Sources
- Pronunciation: Wiktionary entry ပီလောပီနံ, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
- Word origins: Wiktionary entries ပီလောပီနံ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
