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ခု

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Burmese

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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

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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)
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Etymology 2

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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

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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
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Used with nouns that cannot be assigned to another classifier, and sometimes with nouns that could have been assigned to another classifier.

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Etymology 3

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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

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ခု • (hku.)

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

Etymology 4

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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

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ခု • (hku.)

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

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  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

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ခု (khu)

  1. to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.
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