ကူ
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Burmese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kù/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ku • ALA-LC: kū • BGN/PCGN: ku • Okell: ku
Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]ကူ • (ku)
- to coo
Derived terms
[edit]- ချိုးကူ (hkyui:ku)
Etymology 2
[edit]Likely inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”). Compare Old Chinese 救 (OC *kus, “to help, save”), 求 (OC *ɡu, “to seek, ask”) (STEDT).
Verb
[edit]ကူ • (ku)
Derived terms
[edit]- ကူငွေ (ku-ngwe)
- ကူညီ (ku-nyi)
- ကူဖော်လောင်ဖက် (kuhpaulaunghpak)
- ကူသယ်ခေါက်သယ် (kusaihkauksai)
- စစ်ကူ (cacku)
- စစ်ကူစစ်ထောက် (cackucachtauk)
- စစ်ကူတောင်း (cackutaung:)
- ဉာဏ်ကူ (nyanku)
- တံကူ (tamku)
- လယ်ကူချ (laikuhkya.)
- လယ်ကူလိုက် (laikuluik)
- လွယ်ကူ (lwaiku)
- လွယ်လင့်တကူ (lwailang.ta.ku)
- သွေးတံကူ (swe:tamku)
- အလွယ်တကူ (a.lwaita.ku)
Further reading
[edit]- “ကူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
S'gaw Karen
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-gywa(n/t) (“wear, put on, clothe”).
Verb
[edit]ကူ • (koo)
Derived terms
[edit]- တၢ်ကူတၢ်ကၤ (ta̱ koo ta̱ kā)
Related terms
[edit]- ကၤ (kā)
Categories:
- Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Burmese onomatopoeias
- Burmese lemmas
- Burmese verbs
- Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese
- Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese
- S'gaw Karen terms inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman
- S'gaw Karen terms derived from Proto-Tibeto-Burman
- S'gaw Karen lemmas
- S'gaw Karen verbs