ထီ

See also: ထိ, ထီ့, and ထီး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰì/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hti • ALA-LC: thī • BGN/PCGN: hti • Okell: hti
• Homophone: ဌီ (hti)

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ထီ • (hti)

1. (usually negative) to care, heed, defer to

Derived terms

• ထီမထင် (htima.htang)
• ဘာမထီ (bhama.hti)
• မထီတရီ (ma.htita.ri)
• မထီမဲ့မြင် (ma.htimai.mrang)
• မထီလေးစား (ma.htile:ca:)

Etymology 2

Possibly corrupted from English lottery.

Noun

ထီ • (hti) (classifier စောင်)

1. lottery
2. lottery ticket

Derived terms

• ထီထိုး (htihtui:)
• ထီပေါက် (htipauk)
• ထီပေါက်စဉ် (htipaukcany)
• ထီဖွင့် (htihpwang.)
• သိန်းထီ (sin:hti)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• thī (Latin script)
• 𑀣𑀻 (Brahmi script)
• थी (Devanagari script)
• থী (Bengali script)
• ථී (Sinhalese script)
• ထဳ (Burmese script)
• ถี (Thai script)
• ᨳᩦ (Tai Tham script)
• ຖີ (Lao script)
• ថី (Khmer script)
• 𑄗𑄩 (Chakma script)

Noun

ထီ f

1. Burmese script form of thī (“woman”)

Declension

Declension table of "ထီ" (feminine)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ထီ (thī)	ထိယော (thiyo) or ထီ (thī)
Accusative (second)	ထိံ (thiṃ) or ထိယံ (thiyaṃ)	ထိယော (thiyo) or ထီ (thī)
Instrumental (third)	ထိယာ (thiyā)	ထီဟိ (thīhi) or ထီဘိ (thībhi)
Dative (fourth)	ထိယာ (thiyā)	ထီနံ (thīnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ထိယာ (thiyā)	ထီဟိ (thīhi) or ထီဘိ (thībhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ထိယာ (thiyā)	ထီနံ (thīnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ထိယာ (thiyā) or ထိယံ (thiyaṃ)	ထီသု (thīsu)
Vocative (calling)	ထိ (thi)	ထိယော (thiyo) or ထီ (thī)

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *thejᴬ (“water”) (Luangthongkum, 2019) or *thi⁴ (“idem”) (Burling, 1969), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ (“water, fluid, wet, to soak”). Cognate with S'gaw Karen ထံ (hṭee), Eastern Pwo ထီ့ (thî), Western Pwo ထံၫ, Western Kayah ꤓꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (htyē).

Pronunciation

• (Northern & Southern Pa'o) IPA^(key): /tʰi̤³¹/

Noun

ထီ (hti)

1. water

S'gaw Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen *thawᴬ (“long (of length), tall, high”). Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထဝ့် (thɔ̂), Western Pwo ထီၫ, Western Kayah ꤓꤢꤨ꤭ (htū).

Verb

ထီ • (hṭaw)

1. (stative) to be long
2. (stative) to be tall, high

Antonyms

• ဖုၣ် (hpù)