ထံ

Burmese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (ə-thaṁ "presence ( of a person )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰàɴ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: htam • ALA-LC: thaṃ • BGN/PCGN: htan • Okell: htañ

Postposition

ထံ • (htam)

1. to

Derived terms

• ကုံထံ (kumhtam)
• ထံပါး (htampa:)
• ထံမှ (htamhma.)
• ထံမှောက် (htamhmauk)
• ထံရင်း (htam-rang:)
• လူကုံထံ (lukumhtam)
• အထံ (a.htam)

Further reading

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

Phake

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *cramꟲ (“cave”). Cognate with Thai ถ้ำ (tâm), Lao ຖ້ຳ (tham), Northern Thai ᨳ᩶ᩣᩴ, Khün ᨳ᩶ᩣᩴ, Lü ᦏᧄᧉ (ṫham²), Shan ထမ်ႈ (thām), Tai Nüa ᥗᥛᥲ (thàm), Tai Dam ꪖꪾ꫁, Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (thaṃ), Zhuang gamj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰam³/

Noun

ထ︀ံ (thaṃ)

1. cave.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːm²/

Verb

ထ︀ံ (thaṃ)

1. to assist (with authority).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːm²/

Adjective

ထ︀ံ (thaṃ)

1. next; following.

Etymology 4

From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), Lü ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Tai Nüa ᥗᥣᥛᥴ (tháam), Khamti ထ︀ၢမ︀်, Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (thaṃ), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thüm), Zhuang cam, Saek ถ่าม, Zuojiang Zhuang tam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːm⁶/

Verb

ထ︀ံ (thaṃ)

1. to ask; to enquire.

S'gaw 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 Pa'o Karen ထီ, Eastern Pwo ထီ့ (thî), Western Pwo ထံၫ, Western Kayah ꤓꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (htyē).

Noun

ထံ • (hṭee)

1. water

Compounds

• ကသူထံ (ka thoo hṭee)
• ထံကီၢ် (hṭee kaw̱)
• ထံချီ (hṭee khlaw)
• ထံဒိၣ် (hṭee doh̀)
• ထံပူၤ (hṭee poō)
• ထံဖိကျိ (hṭee hpoh kloh)
• မဲာ်ထံ (meḥ hṭee)