တော့

See also: -တော့ and တော

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̰/
• Romanization: MLCTS: tau. • ALA-LC: toʹ • BGN/PCGN: taw. • Okell: tó

Etymology 1

Verb

တော့ • (tau.)

1. to toss or throw up something repeatedly into the air with one's head, hand, foot, etc.

Derived terms

• တော့တီးတော့တ (tau.ti:tau.ta.)
• ပန်းတော့ (pan:tau.)
• ဖျော့တော့ (hpyau.tau.)
• ဖျော့တော့နာ (hpyau.tau.na)
• ဖေတော့မောင်တော့ (hpetau.maungtau.)

 

Etymology 2

Particle

တော့ • (tau.)

1. particle suffixed to verbs to indicate finality

Derived terms

• လက်စသတ်တော့ (lakca.sattau.)
• အဲသည်တော့ (ai:sanytau.)

 

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Same as Etymology 2?”)

Particle

တော့ • (tau.)

1. particle suffixed to verb as an emphasis, equivalent in usage to the adverb "when"

Derived terms

• ချင်တော့ (hkyangtau.)
• တန်တော့ (tantau.)
• ဖြစ်ချင်တော့ (hprachkyangtau.)
• ဘယ်တော့ (bhaitau.)

 

Further reading

• “တော့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.