တူ
See also: တူး and ᨲᩪ
Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tù/
- Romanization: MLCTS: tu • ALA-LC: tū • BGN/PCGN: tu • Okell: tu
Noun
တူ • (tu)
- hammer
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- တူမီးသေနတ် (tumi:senat)
- သံတူ (samtu)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Min Nan 箸 (tū). Compare Lü ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu1), Lao ຖູ່ (thū).
Noun
တူ • (tu)
- chopsticks
Etymology 3
From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”).
Noun
တူ • (tu)
- nephew
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- တူမ (tuma.)
Verb
တူ • (tu)
- to be alike
- Synonym: ဆင်တူ (hcangtu)
- to be the same
- Antonym: ကွဲ (kwai:)
- to resemble
- to seem
- သူ ပင်ပန်းနေတာ နဲ့တူတယ်။ ― su pangpan:neta nai.tutai|| ― He seems to be fatigued.[1]
Derived terms
- ညီတူညီမျှ (nyitu-nyihmya., adverb)
- ဆင်တူ (hcangtu, verb)
- တူညီ (tu-nyi, verb)
- တူညီဝတ်စုံ (tu-nyiwatcum, noun)
- နိုင်ငံအချင်းချင်းသဘောတူညီချက် (nuingngam-a.hkyang:hkyang:sa.bhau:tu-nyihkyak, noun)
- သဘောတူညီ (sa.bhau:tu-nyi, verb)
- သဘောတူညီခြင်း (sa.bhau:tu-nyihkrang:, noun)
- ထပ်တူ (htaptu), ထပ်တူထပ်မျှ (htaptuhtaphmya., adverb)
- သာတူညီမျှ (satu-nyihmya., adverb)
- အတူ (a.tu)
- အတူတူ (a.tutu)
Etymology 5
From Pali tulā (“scales”). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).
Proper noun
တူ • (tu)
- (astrology) Libra (zodiacal sign)
See also
- (Western astrology signs) ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup); မိဿ (mi.ssa.), ပြိဿ (pri.ssa.), မေထုန် (mehtun), ကရကဋ် (ka.ra.kat), သိဟ် (sih), ကန် (kan), တူ (tu), ဗြိစ္ဆာ (brichca), ဓနု (dha.nu.), မကရ (ma.ka.ra.), ကုံ (kum), မိန် (min) (Category: my:Astrology)
References
- People's Forum on Burma; Shwe Ba (2015) 話せる・伝わる ミャンマー語入門 CD付 (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishukanshoten, →ISBN, page 86
- “တူ, 1; တူ, 2; တူ, 3; တူ, 4; တူ, 5” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 487.
Mon
Pronunciation
- (Myanmar, Thailand) IPA(key): /tao/[1]
Proper noun
တူ (tao)
- Libra (zodiacal sign)
Verb
တူ (transliteration needed)
- (intransitive) to burn[1]
Adjective
တူ (transliteration needed)
- hot; burning
Derived terms
(Verbs)
- တူသ္ၚေက်
See also
- စံၚ်
References
- Jenny, Mathias (2015), “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages, volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, DOI:, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600
Shan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuː˨˦/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (“door”). Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (old) or ᨸᨲᩪ (modern), Southern Thai ตู, Lao ປະຕູ (pa tū), Bouyei dul, Zhuang dou or du.
Noun
တူ • (tǔu)
- door
Synonyms
- ၽၵ်းတူ (phák tǔu)
Etymology 2
Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (tǔu), Lao ຕູ (tū).
Pronoun
တူ • (tǔu)
- I, me