စို့

Burmese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so̰/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: cui. • ALA-LC: cuiʹ • BGN/PCGN: so. • Okell: soú

Etymology 1

Verb

စို့ • (cui.)

  1. to become moist
  2. to ooze
  3. to suckle
  4. to be over and above

Noun

စို့ • (cui.)

  1. shoot
  2. rainbow appearing in the western sky
    Synonyms: သက်တံ (saktam), သက်တင် (saktang)
  3. cold chisel
  4. dowel, pin of wood or metal

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.)

  1. 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.)

  1. 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