See also: တူး and ᨲᩪ

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Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

တူ (tu)

  1. hammer
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(Nouns)

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Hokkien (). Compare ᦏᦴᧈ (ṫhuu¹), Lao ຖູ່ (thū).

Noun edit

တူ (tu)

  1. chopsticks

Etymology 3 edit

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

Noun edit

တူ (tu)

  1. nephew
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(Nouns)

Etymology 4 edit

Verb edit

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 နဲ့တူတယ်su pangpan:neta nai.tutai||He seems to be fatigued.[1]
Derived terms edit

Etymology 5 edit

From Pali tulā (scales). Compare Khmer តុលា (tolaa), Thai ตุลา (dtù-laa).

Proper noun edit

တူ (tu)

  1. (astrology) Libra (zodiacal sign)

See also edit

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 edit

  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 edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Proper noun edit

တူ (tao)

  1. Libra (zodiacal sign)

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. (intransitive) to burn[1]

Adjective edit

တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. hot; burning
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(Verbs)

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jenny, Mathias (2015) “Modern Mon”, in Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell, editors, The Handbook of Austroasian Languages[1], volume 1, Leiden and Boston: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 568 of 553–600

Shan edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (door). Cognate with Thai ตู (dtuu), Northern Thai ᨲᩪ (old) or ᨸᨲᩪ (modern), Southern Thai ตู, Lao ປະຕູ (pa tū), ᦎᦴ (ṫuu), Bouyei dul, Zhuang dou or du.

Noun edit

တူ (tǔu)

  1. door
Synonyms edit

Etymology 2 edit

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

Pronoun edit

တူ (tǔu)

  1. I, me