“cucumber” in Sgaw Karen
ဒံ
dee
cucumber
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“cucumber” is written ဒံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as dee. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ဒံဖယၤတအဲၣ်ဒိးသူးထီၣ်နူအ့ၣ်ဒီနံၤဘၣ်! အဝဲကဘၣ်ဂဲၤလိၣ်ကွဲ! ဒ်သိးကမၤန့ၢ်ခိၣ်ဖးတၢ်ပြၢလၢအကတၢၢ်တဝီၤ!
Divya can’t have the sniffles today! She has to PLAY! It’s the finals of the Famous Football Cup!
from “Sniffles” →ဒီး, စီၤကါကး နၣ်ဟူတၢ်သီၣ်! ပး,ပး,ပး,! မ့ၢ်မတၤမၤသီၣ်တၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိဒံနိး! စီၤကါကးသူၣ်ခုသးခုဒိၣ်မး လၢထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒံနိး
Kaka hears a sound! Dup, Dup, Dup! What makes this beat? It is Dinoo the dinosaur! Kaka is glad to see Dinoo.
from “Sing in the Rain” →