တန်

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Burmese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

တန် • (tan)

  1. to be worth.
  2. to be worthy of; deserve.
  3. to fit; befit.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

တန် • (tan)

  1. to stop; cease; desist.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Mon တန် (“cheap”).

Adjective

တန် • (tan)

  2. worthless; good for nothing.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Classifier

တန် • (tan)

  1. numerical classifier used in counting different legs of a journey, component parts of abstract concepts.

Etymology 5

From English ton

Noun

တန် • (tan)

  1. ton (unit of weight).

References

Mon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔn/
  • (file)

Etymology 1

From Burmese တန်း (tan:)

Noun

တန် (tan)

  1. class, standard, grade in school.
    မၞးဗ္တောန်ဒၟံၚ်ပ္ဍဲတန်လဵုရော။
    mnaḥ bton dmaṃṅ pḍoa tan liuwro.
    Which class are you in?

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

တန် (tan)

  1. bamboo rat
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Burmese တန် (tan, “worthless”).

Verb

တန် (tan)

  2. to be cheap.
    အဲသွံဂၠဴအဲတန်တန်။
    ʼoaswaʼglaoʼoa tantan.
    I sold my cattle cheap.

Etymology 4

Verb

တန် (tan)

  2. Alternative spelling of သ္တန် (“to stand”)

Etymology 5

Inherited from Old Mon တူန် (“to return”)

Alternative forms

Verb

တန် (tan)

  1. to recur

Preposition

တန် (tan)

  1. Marks change of subject of discourse.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net. (Look word up in the form တုန်.)
  3. ^ R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary‎, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 184 & 438
  4. ^ Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 189: “Another OM verb, ‹tūn› ‘return, go back’ has developed into a particle denoting emphasis or topicality in LM.”

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen (“big”).

Adjective

တန် (tan)

  1. big
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