ထူ

See also: ထူး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰù/
• Romanization: MLCTS: htu • ALA-LC: thū • BGN/PCGN: htu • Okell: htu

Etymology 1

Compare Old Chinese 樹 (OC *djoʔ, *djos, “to plant; tree”).

Verb

ထူ • (htu)

1. to help a person up
2. to erect (a post)
3. to raise (a flag)

Derived terms

• ကိုယ်ထူကိုယ်ထ (kuiyhtukuiyhta.)
• စိုက်ထူ (cuikhtu)
• ထူထူထောင်ထောင် (htuhtuhtaunghtaung)
• ထူထောင် (htuhtaung)
• နာလန်ထူ (nalanhtu)
• လွှင့်ထူ (hlwang.htu)
• အလံထူ (a.lamhtu)
• အိမ်ထောင်ထူ (imhtaunghtu)
• အိုးအိမ်ထူ (ui:imhtu)
• အောင်ထူ (aunghtu)
• အောင်ပြန်ထူ (aungpranhtu)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *tu¹ (“thick; blunt”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t/d)ow-n (“thick”). Cognate with Nuosu ꄖ (du, “dense; thick”), Lolopo tu (“thick”), Jingpho dau (STEDT).

Adjective

ထူ • (htu)

1. thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
2. dense
3. dull, stupid

Derived terms

• ကတ်ထူဖုံး (kathtuhpum:)
• ကြွေးထူ (krwe:htu)
• ကြေးထူ (kre:htu)
• ချပ်ထူ (hkyaphtu)
• ချေးထူ (hkye:htu)
• ထူထပ် (htuhtap)
• ထူထဲ (htuhtai:)
• ထူပျစ် (htu-pyac)
• ထူပြော (htu-prau:)
• ထူပိန်း (htupin:)
• ထူပူ (htupu)
• ထူအန်း (htuan:)
• ပျစ်ထူ (pyachtu)
• ပူထူသွား (puhtuswa:)
• ဗိုက်ခေါက်ထူ (buikhkaukhtu)
• မွှန်ထူ (hmwanhtu)
• ရောဂါထူ (rau:gahtu)
• အကြွေးထူ (a.krwe:htu)
• အတိုင်အတောထူ (a.tuing-a.tau:htu)
• အထူ (a.htu)
• အရေထူ (a.rehtu)

Further reading

• “ထူ” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 527.
• “ထူ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

S'gaw Karen

Etymology 1

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ဓံင့် (thôɴ), Western Pwo ထီၫ့ (thàuɴ), Western Kayah ꤓꤢꤧ꤭ (htāe).

Noun

ထူ • (hṭoo)

1. gold

Related terms

• စ့ (say, “silver”)
• တိၢ် (toẖ, “copper, coin”)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Eastern Pwo ထူ့ (thɯ̂).

Noun

ထူ • (hṭoo)

1. roll

Classifier

ထူ • (hṭoo)

1. Classifier for rolls.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Verb

ထူ • (hṭoo)

1. to kick

Shan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Southwestern Tai *tʰuːᴬ¹ (“to rub; to polish”) (Jonsson, 1991). Cognate with Thai ถู (tǔu), Northern Thai ᨳᩪ, Khün ᨳᩪ, Isan ถู, Lao ຖູ (thū), Lü ᦏᦴ (ṫhuu), Tai Nüa ᥗᥧᥴ (thú), Phake ထ︀ူ (thū), Ahom 𑜌𑜥 (thū).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰuː˨˦/
• Rhymes: -uː

Verb

ထူ • (thǔu) (abstract noun လွင်ႈထူ)

1. to rub