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တန်

Burmese edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb edit

တန် • (tan)

  1. to be worth.
  2. to be worthy of; deserve.
  3. to fit; befit.

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb edit

တန် • (tan)

  1. to stop; cease; desist.

Etymology 3 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Mon တန် (“cheap”).

Adjective edit

တန် • (tan)

  2. worthless; good for nothing.

Etymology 4 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Classifier edit

တန် • (tan)

  1. numerical classifier used in counting different legs of a journey, component parts of abstract concepts.

Etymology 5 edit

From English ton

Noun edit

တန် • (tan)

  1. ton (unit of weight).

References edit

Mon edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tɔn/[1]
  • (file)

Etymology 1 edit

From Burmese တန်း (tan:)[1]

Noun edit

တန် (tan)

  1. class, standard, grade in school.[1]
    မၞးဗ္တောန်ဒၟံၚ်ပ္ဍဲတန်လဵုရော။
    mnaḥ bton dmaṃṅ pḍoa tan liuwro.
    Which class are you in?

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

တန် (tan)

  1. bamboo rat[2]
Alternative forms edit

Etymology 3 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Burmese တန် (tan, “worthless”).

Verb edit

တန် (tan)

  2. to be cheap.[1]
    အဲသွံဂၠဴအဲတန်တန်။[1]
    ʼoaswaʼglaoʼoa tantan.
    I sold my cattle cheap.

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

တန် (tan)

  2. Alternative spelling of သ္တန် (“to stand”)[3]

Etymology 5 edit

Inherited from Old Mon တူန် (“to return”)[4]

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

တန် (tan)

  1. to recur[2]

Preposition edit

တန် (tan)

  1. Marks change of subject of discourse.[2]

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎[1], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎[2], London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net. (Look word up in the form တုန်.)
  3. ^ R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary‎[3], Bangkok: Siam Society, page 184 & 438
  4. ^ Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 189: “Another OM verb, ‹tūn› ‘return, go back’ has developed into a particle denoting emphasis or topicality in LM.”

Pa'o Karen edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Karen [Term?] (“big”).

Adjective edit

တန် (tan)

  1. big
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