တူး

See also: တူ, တိုး, and တုံး

Burmese

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Nuosu ꅤ (ndu, “to dig”), Naxi ddv (“to dig”), Jingpho thu (“to dig”), Drung du (“to excavate, to dig up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tú/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tu: • ALA-LC: tūʺ • BGN/PCGN: tu: • Okell: tù

Verb

တူး • (tu:)

1. to dig (move hard-packed earth)

References

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