ဖူး

Burmese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hpu: • Okell: hpù

Verb

ဖူး • (hpu:)

  1. to visit (a shrine, a monk, etc.)
  2. to behold (someone) with awe and veneration
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔ-bu ~ *pu (to be born; birth; bud; bloom). Cognate with Jingpho pu (to bloom, bud), Old Chinese (OC *buʔ, “big mount; abundant”) (STEDT), as well as, per Luce, (OC *pruː, “bud; luxuriant”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hpu: • Okell: hpù

Verb

ဖူး • (hpu:)

  1. to swell, be swollen
  2. to bud

Noun

ဖူး • (hpu:)

  1. lump; swelling
  2. (botany) bud
  3. (card games) spades
Derived terms
  • ကျည်ဖူး (kyanyhpu:)
  • ကွန်းဖူး (kwan:hpu:)
  • ငှက်ပျောဖူး (hngakpyau:hpu:)
  • စိန်ဖူး (cinhpu:)
  • ဆပ်သွားဖူး (hcapswa:hpu:)
  • တိုင်ဖူး (tuinghpu:)
  • ထန်းဖူး (htan:hpu:)
  • ထန်းဖူးရစ် (htan:hpu:rac)
  • ထိပ်ဖူး (htiphpu:)
  • ပြောင်းဖူး (praung:hpu:)
  • ပြောင်းဖူးဖက်လိပ် (praung:hpu:hpaklip)
  • ပုရစ်ဖူး (pu.rachpu:)
  • ဖက်ဖူးရောင် (hpakhpu:raung)
  • ဖူးနီ (hpu:ni)
  • ဖူးဖူးထ (hpu:hpu:hta.)
  • ဖူးဖူးရောင် (hpu:hpu:raung)
  • မာလာဖူး (malahpu:)
  • မုန့်ဆပ်သွားဖူး (mun.hcapswa:hpu:)
  • ဟင်းညံ့ဖူး (hang:nyam.hpu:)
  • ဟင်းရမ်းဖူး (hang:ram:hpu:)

See also

Suits in Burmese · ဖဲအပွင့် (hpai:a.pwang.) (layout · text)
ဖူးနီ, ပိမ့် (hpu:ni, pim.) ထောင့်, ချွန်း (htaung., hkywan:) ဖူး (hpu:) ညှင်း (hnyang:)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • Phonetic respellings: ဗူး, ဖူး
  • IPA(key): /bú/, /pʰú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: bu:/hpu: • Okell: hpù/hpù ဖုး
Usage notes
  • /bú/ is used after vowels or /ɴ/, whereas /pʰú/ is used after /ʔ/.

Particle

ဖူး • (hpu:)

  1. indicates a perfect tense
    ဗမာပြည် ရောက်ဖူးသလား။
    ba.ma-prany raukhpu:sa.la:||
    Have you ever come to Burma?
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (48. to Behold with reverence or love))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 33
  2. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (47. Bud; to Bud; edible Bulb Root)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 33

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