မူး

See also: မူ, အမည်, အမိ, အမြီး, မိုး, and မီး

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mú/
• Romanization: MLCTS: mu: • ALA-LC: mūʺ • BGN/PCGN: mu: • Okell: mù

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (mu³ "drunk"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Adjective

မူး • (mu:)

1. giddy, dizzy
2. drunk

Derived terms

• ခေါင်းမူး (hkaung:mu:)
• မူးနောက် (mu:nauk)
• မူးမော် (mu:mau)
• မူးယစ် (mu:yac)
• မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါး (mu:yachce:wa:)
• ယစ်မူး (yacmu:)
• ရူးရူးမူးမူး (ru:ru:mu:mu:)
• အရူးအမူး (a.ru:a.mu:)
• အိပ်ချင်မူးတူး (iphkyangmu:tu:)

 

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (mu³ "ten cents"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

Noun

မူး • (mu:)

1. one tenth of a kyat during the Konbaung era (often translated as ten cents)
2. one eighth of a rupee during the colonial era
3. one eighth of ကျပ်သား (kyapsa:) (traditional weight measure)
4. one eighth of an inch or acre

Derived terms

• ငါးမူး (nga:mu:)
• ဆယ်မူးရည် (hcaimu:rany)
• ဆယ်လီမူး (hcailimu:)
• ပုလဲတစ်မူး (pu.lai:tacmu:)
• မူးစုပဲစုစု (mu:cu.pai:cu.cu.)
• မူးတင်းပဲတင်း (mu:tang:pai:tang:)

 

Descendants

• Jingpho: mu

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be mentioned either by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

Noun

မူး • (mu:)

1. small stream

Proper noun

မူး • (mu:)

1. (~မြစ်) Mu (a river in Burma)

Derived terms

• မူးလက်တံ (mu:laktam)

 

Further reading

• “မူး” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 764.
• “မူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

S'gaw Karen

Noun

မူး • (moö)

1. ceremony