စို့
Burmese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so̰/
- Romanization: MLCTS: cui. • ALA-LC: cuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: so. • Okell: soú
Etymology 1
Verb
စို့ • (cui.)
Noun
စို့ • (cui.)
Derived terms
- ချွေးစို့ (hkywe:cui.)
- စို့ငုတ်တို (cui.nguttui)
- စို့စို့ပို့ပို့ (cui.cui.pui.pui.)
- စို့တံကိုင်း (cui.tamkuing:)
- စို့တံခါးပိတ် (cui.tamhka:pit)
- ညှီစို့စို့ (hnyicui.cui.)
- တံစို့ (tamcui.)
- နို့စို့ (nui.cui.)
- နို့စို့ဖက် (nui.cui.hpak)
- ပုရစ်စို့ (pu.raccui.)
- ဖောက်စို့ (hpaukcui.)
- မစို့မပို့ (ma.cui.ma.pui.)
- မျှစ်စို့ပေါက် (hmyaccui.pauk)
- မြိတ်စို့ (mritcui.)
- ရင်စို့ (rangcui.)
- သံစို့ (samcui.)
- အစို့ (a.cui.)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned by STEDT or Luce 1981? Is this a natural exclamation originally?”)
Noun
စို့ • (cui.)
- cry uttered by a player when a spinning top is caught with the hand after flipping it into the air with the string (the last player to utter has to surrender his top which is placed in a circle for other players to hit it with their tops, until it is knocked out of the circle)
Postposition
စို့ • (cui.)
- postpositional marker following a verb indicating a proposal to do something together: let's (imperative)
- Synonym: ရအောင် (ra.aung)
Derived terms
- ဆိုပါစို့ (hcuipacui.)
Further reading
- “စို့” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.