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)

  1. 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)

  1. chopsticks

Etymology 3

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (“nephew, descendant”).

Noun

တူ • (tu)

  1. nephew
Derived terms

(Nouns)

Verb

တူ • (tu)

  1. to be alike
    Synonym: ဆင်တူ (hcangtu)
  2. to be the same
    Antonym: ကွဲ (kwai:)
  3. to resemble
  4. 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)

  1. (astrology) Libra (zodiacal sign)

See also
Zodiac signs in Burmese · ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup) (layout · text)
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) ♓︎

References
  1. 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)

  1. Libra (zodiacal sign)

Verb

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. (intransitive) to burn[1]

Adjective

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. hot; burning
Derived terms

(Verbs)

  • တူသ္ၚေက်
See also

References
  1. 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˨˦/
  • Rhymes: -uː

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)

  1. door
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (tǔu), Lao ຕູ (tū).

Pronoun

တူ • (tǔu)

  1. I, me
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