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တူ

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See also: တူး and ᨲᩪ

Burmese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (tu "like (as)"), while Luce gives Old Chinese (OC *tuːbs, “to correspond to”) and Tibetan དོ་ (do), དོད (dod, equivalent) as cognates, as well as grouping the word etymologically together with တု (tu., to imitate, vie with).[1]

Verb

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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.[2]
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-(t/d)u (nephew, descendant). Cognate with Mizo tu (nephew), as well as Old Chinese (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) in the obscure sense of "nephew, descendant" as seen in the Erya (STEDT).

Noun

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တူ (tu)

  1. nephew
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Etymology 3

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/m-t(w)a ~ *(t/d)u (hammer, strike, slap), provisionally set up by STEDT. Cognate with Tibetan ཐོ་བ (tho ba, hammer), Old Chinese (OC *toːns, “to forge, refine”), (OC *tuːls, “pestle”).

Noun

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တူ (tu)

  1. hammer
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Etymology 4

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

Noun

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တူ (tu)

  1. chopsticks

Etymology 5

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

Proper noun

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တူ (tu)

  1. (astrology) Libra (zodiacal sign)

See also

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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

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  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (24. to Liken; make Image; to be Like)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 32
  2. ^ 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

Further reading

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  • တူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • 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

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

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တူ (tao)

  1. Libra (zodiacal sign)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. (intransitive) to burn[1]

Adjective

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တူ (transliteration needed)

  1. hot; burning
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(Verbs)

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References

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  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

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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တူ (tǔu)

  1. door
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Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

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တူ (tǔu)

  1. I, me








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