အခု

See also: အခိုး, အခြား, and အချို့

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respellings: အ'ခု, အ'ဂု
• IPA^(key): /ʔəkʰṵ/, /ʔəɡṵ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: a.hku. • ALA-LC: ʼakhu • BGN/PCGN: ăhku./ăgu. • Okell: ăhkú/ăhkú

Etymology 1

Colloquial form of ယခု (ya.hku., “now”).

Adverb

အခု • (a.hku.)

1. (colloquial) now (at the present time)

Noun

အခု • (a.hku.)

1. (colloquial) now; the present

Synonyms

• ယခု (ya.hku.) (formal, literary)

Derived terms

• အခုနှယ် (a.hku.hnai)
• အခုနေ (a.hku.ne)
• အခုပုံ (a.hku.pum)

Etymology 2

အ- (a.-, “nominal prefix”) +‎ ခု (hku., “to prop up, place a support under”).

Noun

အခု • (a.hku.)

1. pad; cushion; support

Derived terms

• အခုအခံ (a.hku.a.hkam)

Further reading

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