ထူး

See also: ထူ, ထို, ထိ, ထီ, ထိုး, and ထီး

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 特 (OC *dɯːɡ, “special”), while Luce compares 殊 (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

• → Shan: ထူး (thúu, “fetters”)

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

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

Shan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰuː˥/
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Burmese ထူး (htu:, “fetters”).

Noun

ထူး • (thúu)

1. fetters.

Etymology 2

From Burmese ထူး (htu:, “special”).

Adjective

ထူး • (thúu) (abstract noun တၢင်းထူး)

1. special; different; unique.