လူး

See also: လူ

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lú/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: lu: • ALA-LC: lūʺ • BGN/PCGN: lu: • Okell: lù

Etymology 1

Verb

လူး • (lu:)

  1. to smear, besmear, daub
    သနပ်ခါးလူး ― sa.naphka:lu: ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. to be smeared
    ခြေထောက်မှာရွှံ့တွေလူးနေ ― hkrehtaukhmahrwam.twelu:ne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. to writhe
    အိပ်ရာပေါ်မှာလူးနေ ― ip-rapauhmalu:ne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. to roll, wallow
    လှေလူး ― hlelu: ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    အိုင်ထဲမှာကျွဲလူးနေ ― uinghtai:hma-kywai:lu:ne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  5. (same as လူးတွင်း (lu:twang:)) wallowing pond

Adjective

လူး • (lu:)

  1. (archaic) youthful

Derived terms

  • ကြွယ်လူး (krwailu:)
  • ချိုတည်လူး (hkyuitanylu:)
  • ငါးရံ့ပြာလူး (nga:ram.pralu:)
  • ငါးလူး (nga:lu:)
  • ဆိပ်လူးမြား (hciplu:mra:)
  • ပြူးကလူးပြာကလာ (pru:ka.lu:praka.la)
  • ဖျောက်ဆိပ်မြေလူး (hpyaukhcipmrelu:)
  • မျက်ကလူးဆန်ပျာ (myakka.lu:hcanpya)
  • မြေလူးငှက် (mrelu:hngak)
  • ရွယ်လူး (rwailu:)
  • လူးကျင်း (lu:kyang:)
  • လူးဆေး (lu:hce:)
  • လူးတွင်း (lu:twang:)
  • လူးတား (lu:ta:)
  • လူးတားကြိုး (lu:ta:krui:)
  • လူးတားပေါက် (lu:ta:pauk)
  • လူးရွေပေါ် (lu:rwepau)
  • လူးလွန့် (lu:lwan.)
  • လူးလှိမ့် (lu:hlim.)
  • လူးလာ (lu:la)
  • လူးလာခတ် (lu:lahkat)
  • လူးလာခေါက်ပြန် (lu:lahkaukpran)
  • လူးလိမ့် (lu:lim.)
  • လူးလဲထ (lu:lai:hta.)
  • လူးအိုင် (lu:uing)
  • အကူးအလူး (a.ku:a.lu:)

Etymology 2

According to MED, borrowed from Hindi लुख (lukh). Another theory by Luce suggests relation to Old Chinese 黍 (OC *hljaʔ, “millet”).[1]

Noun

လူး • (lu:)

  1. common millet (Panicum miliaceum)

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (67. Panicled Millet (Panicum miliaceum))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 34

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