ဆောက်

• IPA^(key): /sʰaʊʔ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hcauk • ALA-LC: chokʻ • BGN/PCGN: hsauk • Okell: hsauʔ

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔtsukᴴ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ~ tsik. Cognates include Tibetan རྩིག (rtsig, “wall”), as well as perhaps Old Chinese 築 (OC *tuɡ, “to build, pound earth”), 造 (OC *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ, “to create”) (STEDT).

ဆောက် • (hcauk)

1. to build, construct (form by combining materials or parts)

Compare Old Chinese 鑿 (OC *ʔsoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, *zoːwɢ, “chisel”) (Schuessler, 2007), which is a very solid phonetic and semantic match; see Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzawk for more.

ဆောက် • (hcauk)

1. chisel

ဆောက် • (hcauk)

1. a kind of coffee-wort, the leaves of which are used in preparing a dark-brown dye: Euonymus javanicus

• “ဆောက်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 416.
• “ဆောက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.