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), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu), 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), Lü ᦎᦴ (ṫuu).

Pronoun

တူ • (tǔu)

  1. I, me
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