ဆူ

See also: ဆု and ဆူး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰù/
• Romanization: MLCTS: hcu • ALA-LC: chū • BGN/PCGN: hsu • Okell: hsu

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Burmese ဆော, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsjow (“to boil, burn, cook, bake”). Cognate with Old Chinese 焦 (OC *ʔsew, “to scorch”); see there for more (STEDT).

The "be noisy" sense isn't given etymology by STEDT (shu²² "make a row, racket") and isn't mentioned by Luce 1981, while MED considers it a semantic extension of the "boil" sense, which appears semantically reasonable.

Verb

ဆူ • (hcu)

1. (intransitive, of water, liquid) to boil, come to a boiling stage
2. to effervesce, bubble, seethe
3. to be noisy, clamor
4. to scold, reprove
5. to be in a state of unrest

Derived terms

• ကြက်ဆူ (krakhcu)
• ကြက်ဆူဆီ (krakhcuhci)
• ငါးဆူပင် (nga:hcupang)
• ဆူဆေး (hcuhce:)
• ဆူညံ (hcu-nyam)
• ဆူပွက် (hcu-pwak)
• ဆူပူ (hcupu)
• ဆူလွယ်နပ်လွယ် (hculwainaplwai)
• ထိန့်ဆူ (htin.hcu)
• ပွက်ပွက်ဆူ (pwakpwakhcu)
• မန်ကျည်းကြက်ဆူ (mankyany:krakhcu)
• ရေဆူမှတ် (rehcuhmat)
• သွေးဆူ (swe:hcu)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsow-s (“fat, omentum”). Cognate with Old Chinese 臇 (OC *ʔsol, *ʔsonʔ, “fatty; meaningful”); see there for more (STEDT).

Adjective

ဆူ • (hcu)

1. plump, fat (thick)

Verb

ဆူ • (hcu)

1. to be plump, be well-filled out

Derived terms

• ဆူကြုံနိမ့်မြင့်မရွေး (hcu-krumnim.mrang.ma.rwe:)
• ဆူဖြိုး (hcuhprui:)

 

Etymology 3

From Proto-Tibeto-Burman *tsu (“spirit of dead”); cognate with Jingpho [script needed] (tsù, “spirit”) (STEDT). Note also similarities to Old Chinese 座 (OC *zoːls, “classifier for buildings”).

Classifier

ဆူ • (hcu)

1. (Buddhism) numerical classifier for pagodas, images of the Buddha, and other sacred objects

   ဘုရား နှစ်ဆူ

   bhu.ra: hnachcu

   two pagodas

Derived terms

• ဆူလှယ် (hcuhlai)
• နှစ်ကျိပ်ရှစ်ဆူပွဲ (hnackyiphrachcu-pwai:)
• ဘုရားကိုးဆူ (bhu.ra:kui:hcu)
• ဘုရားတစ်ဆူဂူတစ်လုံး (bhu.ra:tachcugutaclum:)

 

Further reading

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

S'gaw Karen

Preposition

ဆူ • (hsoo)

1. Used to indicate destination: to