ထူး

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: htu: • ALA-LC: thūʺ • BGN/PCGN: htu: • Okell: htù

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (thû "differ, be diverse, uncommon"). Bears superficial resemblance to Old Chinese (OC *dɯːɡ, “special”), while Luce compares (OC *to, *djo, “different”).[1]

Verb

ထူး (htu:)

  1. to be extraordinary
  2. to be different from others, special, unique

Particle

ထူး (htu:)

  1. particle suffixed to a noun or pronoun to denote singularity
Derived terms
  • ကိုယ်ထူး (kuiyhtu:)
  • ကိုယ်ထူးကိုယ်ချွန် (kuiyhtu:kuiyhkywan)
  • ဂုဏ်ထူး (gunhtu:)
  • ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် (gunhtu:hcaung)
  • ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်လက်မှတ် (gunhtu:hcaunglakhmat)
  • ဂုဏ်ထူးတန်း (gunhtu:tan:)
  • စစ်ရာထူးခန့်ချုပ် (cacrahtu:hkan.hkyup)
  • ထဆင်ထူး (hta.hcanghtu:)
  • ထွေထွေထူးထူး (htwehtwehtu:htu:)
  • ထူးကဲ (htu:kai:)
  • ထူးချွန် (htu:hkywan)
  • ထူးခြား (htu:hkra:)
  • ထူးဆန်း (htu:hcan:)
  • ထူးထွေ (htu:htwe)
  • ထူးမြတ် (htu:mrat)
  • နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ် (ne.htu:ne.mrat)
  • မြီးထူးရိုး (mri:htu:rui:)
  • မြူးထူး (mru:htu:)
  • ရာထူး (rahtu:)
  • ရာထူးချ (rahtu:hkya.)
  • ရာထူးတိုး (rahtu:tui:)
  • ရာထူးပြုတ် (rahtu:prut)
  • ရာထူးလျှော (rahtu:hlyau:)
  • လူထူး (luhtu:)
  • သတ်ထူး (sathtu:)
  • သူတစ်ထူး (sutachtu:)
  • အကျိုးထူး (a.kyui:htu:)
  • အကြောင်းထူး (a.kraung:htu:)
  • အခွင့်ထူး (a.hkwang.htu:)
  • အခွင့်ထူးခံ (a.hkwang.htu:hkam)
  • အထူးထူး (a.htu:htu:)
Descendants
  • Shan: ထူး (thúu, special)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (thû "reply to a call"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ထူး (htu:)

  1. to answer a call; to respond
Derived terms
  • မေးထူးခေါ်ပြော (me:htu:hkau-prau:)
  • အဲထူး (ai:htu:)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (thû "hopple or fetter"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ထူး (htu:)

  1. fetters (esp. for elephants) (chain used to bind a person or animal by the legs)
Derived terms
  • ဆင်ထူး (hcanghtu:)
  • ထူးကွင်း (htu:kwang:)
  • ထူးခတ် (htu:hkat)
  • ထူးပွတ် (htu:pwat)
Descendants

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (thû "hole, cavity in earth"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ထူး (htu:)

  1. a sinkhole, swallow-hole
Derived terms
  • ထူးတွင်း (htu:twang:)
  • ထူးအိုင် (htu:uing)

References

  1. Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (34. Diverse; Extraordinary; Different, other)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 32

Further reading

Shan

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