ဒး

Mon

Etymology

From Middle Mon daḥ “to touch, to be or come into contact with, to be exposed to, to be fitting, right, to befall, etc.” from Old Mon [script needed] (daḥ, “to touch, to be contiguous with”). Cognate to Nyah Kur [script needed] (tàh) and [script needed] (thàh, “to hit, to touch (both transitive and intransitive), to undergo (an undesirable action), to reach (as postverb), correctly”), Khmer ទះ (tĕəh, “to slap”), Stieng dăh “to hit”.

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) IPA^(key): /tɛ̤h/
  • (Pak Kret District) IPA^(key): /tɛ̤əh/

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Noun

ဒး (daḥ)

1. correct.

Verb

ဒး (daḥ)

1. to hit

   Synonym: တက် (tak)

2. to come in contact with
3. to touch

   Synonyms: () ရပ် (rap), () တက် (tak)

4. to meet, to encounter
5. (to be) correct, (to be) apposite, (to be) right

   Synonym: ဒးရး (daḥ raḥ)

6. to coincide with law(s)
7. to reach (goal)

   Synonym: (Pak Kret District) ကၠိုဟ် (kləh)

8. to fit, to be fitting
9. to fall in (with one another)
10. (intransitive) to bump
11. to be exposed to (wind, rain, high temperature, etc.)
12. to undergo (unpleasant experience such as illness), to suffer

    ဒးချာံ ― daḥ khyāṁ ― to catch cold

13. (auxiliary verb, adversative) to get
14. to hurt oneself unintentionally
15. to get into (trap)
16. to violate, to break (an oath)
17. (to be) cheap
18. to hurt mentally
19. (auxiliary verb) placed before full verb for implying necessity; must, should

    ဒးအာရောၚ် ― daḥ ʼā roṅ ― must go

20. (auxiliary verb, passive voice) to be

    ဒးဂစိုတ် ― daḥ gacət ― to be killed

21. (auxiliary verb) used for denoting certainty; must

Usage notes

• (to touch): This verb cannot be used freely as a full verb in imperative and prohibitive constructions.

  လ္ပကဵုဒး ― lpa kəw daḥ /paʔ kɒ tɛ̤h/ ― do not touch it (literally, “do not let [it] touch”)

Derived terms

• ဒးစိုတ် (daḥ cət)
• ဒးဒုဟ် (daḥ duh)
• ဒးပၟိက် (daḥ pmik, “to require”), ဒးကၟိက် (daḥ kmik, “to want”)
• ဒးဖစပ် (daḥ phacap, “to be at good timing”), ဒးဗစပ် (daḥ bacap, “to be fitting”)
• ဗ္ဒး (bdaḥ)