ထွေ

See also: ထွေး

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰwè/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: htwe • ALA-LC: thve • BGN/PCGN: htwe • Okell: htwei

Etymology 1

Verb

ထွေ • (htwe)

  1. to be perturbed or unsettled in mind, be worried
  2. to be tipsy
  3. to be complicated

Particle

ထွေ • (htwe)

  1. numerical classifier for counting varied items
  2. numerical classifier for counting melds of playing cards

Derived terms

  • ကိန်းထွေ (kin:htwe)
  • ခုနစ်ထွေက (hku.nachtweka.)
  • ငါးထွေ (nga:htwe)
  • ထွေထွေထူးထူး (htwehtwehtu:htu:)
  • ထွေထွေရာရာ (htwehtwerara)
  • ထွေထွေလည်လည် (htwehtwelanylany)
  • ထွေပြား (htwe-pra:)
  • ထွေရာလေးပါး (htwerale:pa:)
  • ထွေလာ (htwela)
  • ထွေလီကာလီ (htwelikali)
  • ထူးထွေ (htu:htwe)
  • လိုက်လျောညီထွေ (luiklyau:nyihtwe)
  • လေးထွေသံကတ် (le:htwesamkat)
  • သောင်းပြောင်းထွေလာ (saung:praung:htwela)
  • အထွေ (a.htwe)
  • အထွေထွေ (a.htwehtwe)
  • အုပ်ထွေ (uphtwe)

Etymology 2

(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, and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ထွေ • (htwe)

  1. rounded piece of potsherd used in a pitching game
Derived terms
  • ထွေခင်း (htwehkang:)
  • ထွေပစ် (htwepac)

Etymology 3

(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, and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ထွေ • (htwe)

  1. pronouncement made by an august person
Derived terms
  • ထွေငေါ် (htwe-ngau)
  • ထွေတော် (htwetau)

Further reading