တော်

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See also: တော and -တော်

Burmese

Etymology

According to STEDT:

The "rumbling noise", "stop", and "honorific" senses are not listed by STEDT, though the "honorific" sense could be an extension of the "suitable, clever" sense. Note similarities to Old Chinese 調 (OC *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw, “to adjust, train; matching; style”), though the vowels do not seem to match.

Pronunciation

Verb

တော် • (tau)

  1. to be suitable, be sufficient, be meet, be proper; to fit; to suffice, be enough
  2. to be related
  3. to be good at; to be clever, skillful
  4. to stop, call a halt

Synonyms

Derived terms

Noun

တော် • (tau)

  1. loud rumbling noise (during an earthquake)
  2. first out of the five blocks of seats to which courtiers attending an audience given by the king are assigned according to protocol (same as တော်နေရာ (taunera))

Pronoun

တော် • (tau)

  1. (women's speech, familiar, informal) you (second person pronoun)

Particle

တော် • (tau)

  1. word of response used by women: yes

Suffix

တော် • (tau)

  1. denotes power, sacredness, reverence or royalty
    ဆံတော် ― hcamtau ― hair of Buddha

Derived terms

See -တော် (-tau).

Further reading

  • “တော်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  • “တော်” in Wörterbuch Burmesisch–Deutsch (VEB Verlag Enzykolopädie Leipzig 1976), by Annemarie Esche.

Mon

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Cognate with Thai ตก (dtòk).

Noun

တော် (tok)

  1. drop

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Burmese တွက် (twak).

Verb

တော် (tok)

  1. to make calculation, to cast up accounts

References

  • Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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