ခု
Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰṵ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: hku. • ALA-LC: khu • BGN/PCGN: hku. • Okell: hkú
Etymology 1
Verb
ခု • (hku.)
- to be supported by something (coming) from below, prop up
- to be dissatisfied with (someone), be offended
- to be filling (until it's not enough to change the rice)
Derived terms
- ခုခံ (hku.hkam)
- ခုတုံးလုပ် (hku.tum:lup)
- ခုနှိမ် (hku.hnim)
- ခုလတ် (hku.lat)
- ခုလုခုလုဖြစ် (hku.lu.hku.lu.hprac)
- ခေါင်းခု (hkaung:hku.)
- စိတ်ခု (cithku.)
- ပေါင်ပိုးခု (paungpui:hku.)
- လက်ခု (lakhku.)
- လမ်းခုလတ် (lam:hku.lat)
Etymology 2
Classifier
ခု • (hku.)
- generic classifier used to count nouns; unit
- မျက်မှန် တစ်ခု
- myakhman tachku.
- one pair of glasses
- စကားပုံ နှစ်ခု
- ca.ka:pum hnachku.
- two proverbs
- ကုလားထိုင် သုံးခု
- ku.la:htuing sum:hku.
- three chairs
- လက်မှတ် လေးခု
- lakhmat le:hku.
- four tickets
Usage notes
Used with nouns that cannot be assigned to another classifier, and sometimes with nouns that could have been assigned to another classifier.
Derived terms
- တစ်ခုလပ် (tachku.lap)
- တစ်စုံတစ်ခု (taccumtachku.)
- အဝတ်တစ်ထည်ကိုယ်တစ်ခု (a.wattachtanykuiytachku.)
Etymology 3
Noun
ခု • (hku.)
Derived terms
- ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “the year in a date which ends with a digit other than zero”)
Etymology 4
Noun
ခု • (hku.)
Derived terms
- ခုတင်ခု (hku.tanghku.)
- ခုတလော (hku.ta.lau:)
- ခုထက်ထိ (hku.htakhti.)
- ခုန (hku.na.)
- ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “this year”)
- ခုနေ (hku.ne)
- ခုလုပ်ခုစား (hku.luphku.ca:)
- ခုလေးတင် (hku.le:tang)
- ယခု (ya.hku.)
References
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (9. a Prop; to Prop up)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 31
- ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (10. Unit; Numeral Suffix”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 31
Further reading
- “ခု” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
Mon
Verb
ခု (khu)
- to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.