ပခုံး • (pa.hkum:) (Romanization: MLCTS: pa.hkum: • ALA-LC: pakhuṃ″ • BGN/PCGN: păhkon: • Okell: păhkoùñ)
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”).