ជូត

See also: ជិត and ជាតិ

Khmer

Pronunciation

Orthographic and Phonemic ជូត jūt WT romanisation cuut (standard) IPA(key) /cuːt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *[ ]ɟut ~ *[ ]ɟuut (“to wipe”); cognate with Mon ဇိုတ် (cɜ̀t), Pacoh dyuat, Koho juut.

Verb

ជូត • (cuut) (abstract noun ការជូត)

1. to wipe (off), to dry with a towel, to clean (off)
2. to dust
3. to rub, polish

Affixed forms

• ជំនូត (cumnuut)

Etymology 2

From Old Khmer ជូត (jūt, jūta), ជូត្រ (jūtra, “rat (zodiac)”), from Vietic. Compare Thai ชวด (chûuat); Vietnamese chuột.

Noun

ជូត • (cuut)

1. (astrology) the Rat, one of the twelve lunar zodiac signs.

See also

• (Chinese zodiac signs) រាសីចក្រ (riəsəycak); (ឆ្នាំ~) ជូត (cuut), ឆ្លូវ (chləw), ខាល (khaal), ថោះ (thɑh), រោង (roong), ម្សាញ់ (msañ), មមី (mɔmii), មមែ (mɔmɛɛ), វក (vɔɔk), រកា (rɔkaa), ច (cɑɑ), កុរ (kol) ^{(Category: km:Chinese zodiac signs)}