"ကူ" meaning in Burmese

See ကူ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /kù/ Forms: ku [romanization]
Etymology: Likely inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”). Compare with Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”), Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”). Etymology templates: {{inh|my|tbq-lob-pro|*N-gu||to help}} Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”), {{cog|zh|救||help}} Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”), {{cog|zh|求||ask}} Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”) Head templates: {{my-verb}} ကူ • (ku)
  1. to help, to aid
    Sense id: en-ကူ-my-verb-i4mI8tMd Categories (other): Burmese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Burmese entries with incorrect language header: 70 30
  2. to coo
    Sense id: en-ကူ-my-verb-nPgQpOP6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ကူညီ (ku-nyi)

Download JSON data for ကူ meaning in Burmese (1.3kB)

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*N-gu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to help"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "救",
        "3": "",
        "4": "help"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "求",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ask"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”). Compare with Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”), Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကူ • (ku)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "ku-nyi",
      "word": "ကူညီ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to help, to aid"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကူ-my-verb-i4mI8tMd",
      "links": [
        [
          "help",
          "help"
        ],
        [
          "aid",
          "aid"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to coo"
      ],
      "id": "en-ကူ-my-verb-nPgQpOP6",
      "links": [
        [
          "coo",
          "coo"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kù/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကူ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Burmese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Burmese lemmas",
    "Burmese terms derived from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese",
    "Burmese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Burmese verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "my",
        "2": "tbq-lob-pro",
        "3": "*N-gu",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to help"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "救",
        "3": "",
        "4": "help"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "求",
        "3": "",
        "4": "ask"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely inherited from Proto-Lolo-Burmese *N-gu (“to help”). Compare with Chinese 救 (jiù, “help”), Chinese 求 (qiú, “ask”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ကူ • (ku)",
      "name": "my-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Burmese",
  "lang_code": "my",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "ku-nyi",
      "word": "ကူညီ"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to help, to aid"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "help",
          "help"
        ],
        [
          "aid",
          "aid"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to coo"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coo",
          "coo"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kù/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ကူ"
}

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