ဆိတ်

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰeɪʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hcit • ALA-LC: chitʻ • BGN/PCGN: hseik • Okell: hseiʔ
• Homophone: ဆိပ် (hcip)

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *V-ci:tᴸ (“goat, sheep”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r-tsit (“goat, beard, goatee, yak-hair”). Cognate with Lashi choyt, Nuosu ꍶ (chyt, “goat”), Japhug tsʰɤt (“goat”), Naxi ceel (“goat”), Drung vchit (“goat”) (STEDT).

ဆိတ်

Noun

ဆိတ် • (hcit)

1. goat (animal)

Derived terms

• ဆိတ်ကလေး (hcitka.le:)
• ဆိတ်ကုလား (hcitku.la:)
• ဆိတ်ချို (hcithkyui)
• ဆိတ်ချေး (hcithkye:)
• ဆိတ်ထီး (hcithti:)
• ဆိတ်နံ (hcitnam)
• ဆိတ်နံကြီး (hcitnamkri:)
• ဆိတ်နို့မုန့် (hcitnui.mun.)
• ဆိတ်မ (hcitma.)
• ဆိတ်မျက်လုံး (hcitmyaklum:)
• ဆိတ်လမ်း (hcitlam:)
• ဆိတ်သိုး (hcitsui:)
• တစ်ဆိတ် (tachcit)
• တောက်မဆိတ် (taukma.hcit)

See also

• (Chinese zodiac signs) တရုတ်ဆယ့်နှစ်ရာသီခွင် (ta.ruthcai.hnacrasihkwang); ကြွက် (krwak, “Mouse”), နွား (nwa:, “Cow”), ကျား (kya:, “Tiger”), ယုန် (yun, “Rabbit”), နဂါး (na.ga:, “Dragon”), မြွေ (mrwe, “Snake”), မြင်း (mrang:, “Horse”), ဆိတ် (hcit, “Sheep”), မျောက် (myauk, “Monkey”), ကြက် (krak, “Rooster”), ခွေး (hkwe:, “Dog”), ဝက် (wak, “Pig”) ^{(Category: my:Chinese zodiac signs)}

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 (chit "quiet, calm"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Verb

ဆိတ် • (hcit)

1. to be quiet, still, silent

Derived terms

• ခပ်မဆိတ်နေ (hkapma.hcitne)
• ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ (hcitkwaira)
• ဆိတ်ငြိမ် (hcitngrim)
• ဆိတ်ငြိမ်ရပ်ကွက် (hcitngrim-rapkwak)
• ဆိတ်ညံ (hcitnyam)
• ဆိတ်သုဉ်း (hcitsuny:)
• တိတ်တဆိတ် (titta.hcit)
• သူငယ်အိပ်ဆိတ် (su-ngaiiphcit)

Etymology 3

Verb

ဆိတ် • (hcit)

1. to pinch (squeeze a small amount of skin)
2. to peak with a beak

Derived terms

• ဆိတ်စာ (hcitca)
• ဆိတ်ဆွန်း (hcithcwan:)
• တစ်ဆိတ်စာ (tachcitca)
• တစ်ဆိတ်တစ်အိတ်လုပ် (tachcittacitlup)
• တို့ကနန်းဆိတ်ကနန်း (tui.ka.nan:hcitka.nan:)
• ထိုးဆိတ် (htui:hcit)
• ပုစွန်ဆိတ် (pu.cwanhcit)
• ပုရွက်ဆိတ် (pu.rwakhcit)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned either by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

Particle

ဆိတ် • (hcit)

1. particle suffixed to verb to denote a propensity to do or countenance something deplorable

Derived terms

• နေဆိတ် (nehcit)
• မရှုဆိတ် (ma.hru.hcit)
• ရှုဆိတ် (hru.hcit)

Further reading

• “ဆိတ် 1 ‘goat’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 406.
• “ဆိတ် 3 ‘pinch’” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 407.
• “ဆိတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.