စိတ်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cit • ALA-LC: citʻ • BGN/PCGN: seik • Okell: seiʔ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Pali citta (“mind, heart”). Cognate with Mon စိုတ်.

Noun

စိတ် • (cit)

  1. mind (ability for rational thought), thought, consciousness, heart
  2. desire, will, interest
  3. preoccupation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *m-dziːtᴸ ~ m-tsiːtᴴ (“to split”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(d)ziːt ~ *(t)siːt (“to split”); cognate with Tibetan ཟེད (zed, “broken off, damaged, injured”). See also စုတ် (cut, “to be torn”), which seems to be allofamically related (STEDT).

Verb

စိတ် • (cit)

  1. to slice (things)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not in MED or STEDT. Perhaps a semantic extension of the "slice" sense in Etymology 2?”)

Noun

စိတ် • (cit)

  1. a traditional Burmese unit of volume equivalent to 2¼ imperial gallons or approximately 10.2287 liters

See Appendix:Burmese units of measure.

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Verb

စိတ် (cit)

  1. root of စိန္တေတိ (cinteti), Burmese script form of cinteti
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