ခု

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰṵ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hku. • ALA-LC: khu • BGN/PCGN: hku. • Okell: hkú

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (khu⁵⁵ "fill (a bowl with rice)"). The "support", "be dissatisfied", and "fill" meanings are considered etymologically united by MED. For the "prop up, support" sense, Luce compares Old Chinese 靠 (OC *kʰuːɡs, “to lean on, recline; to depend on”).[1]”

Verb

ခု • (hku.)

  1. to be supported by something (coming) from below, prop up
  2. to be dissatisfied with (someone), be offended
  3. to be filling (until it's not enough to change the rice)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (khuʼ "unit (unit, an individual thing)"). Luce compares Old Chinese 䇢 (“bamboo”), which appears to be a typo on his part; he was most likely referring to 箇 (OC *kaːls, “unit, generic classifier”), though considering the "bamboo" semantics of the Chinese term which are lacking in the Burmese, this connection seems more tenuous (unless the Burmese term is a more recent loan from Sinitic).[2]”

Classifier

ခု • (hku.)

  1. 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

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. MED considers this equivalent to the "unit" sense of Etymology 2 (suggested also by Luce's gloss of "numeral suffix" for Etym 2), based on the "same as ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “a year ending with a non-zero digit”)" definition given by MED.”

Noun

ခု • (hku.)

  1. the first term in a tenfold sequence starting with ခု (hku.), ဆယ် (hcai), the first number
  2. year
Derived terms
  • ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “the year in a date which ends with a digit other than zero”)

Etymology 4

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (jɑ⁵³ khu⁵³ "now"), nor by Luce. MED links ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “this year”) with this as well, and appears to consider the "this year" sense etymologically equivalent to the "year not ending with a 0" sense. Oversight on MED's part, or potential etymological connection?”

Noun

ခု • (hku.)

  1. recently, now, the present (same as ယခု (ya.hku.))
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

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Verb

ခု (khu)

  1. to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.
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