# ဖူး
## Burmese
### 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 (phû "behold reverentially"). Luce gives Old Chinese 俯 (OC *poʔ, “to bow the head”) as a cognate.”

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰú/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hpu: • Okell: hpù

#### Verb

ဖူး • (hpu:)
* to visit (a shrine, a monk, etc.)
* to behold (someone) with awe and veneration

##### Derived terms

* ပေဖူးလွှာ (pehpu:hlwa)
* ဖူးစာ (hpu:ca)
* ဖူးစာဆုံ (hpu:cahcum)
* ဖူးစာရေးနတ် (hpu:care:nat)
* ဖူးမြင် (hpu:mrang)
* ဖူးမြော် (hpu:mrau)
* ဘုရားဖူး (bhu.ra:hpu:)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔ-bu ~ *pu (“to be born; birth; bud; bloom”). Cognate with Jingpho pu (“to bloom, bud”), Old Chinese 阜 (OC *buʔ, “big mount; abundant”) (STEDT), as well as, per Luce, 苞 (OC *pruː, “bud; luxuriant”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰú/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: hpu: • Okell: hpù

#### Verb

ဖူး • (hpu:)
* to swell, be swollen
* to bud

#### Noun

ဖူး • (hpu:)
* lump; swelling
* (botany) bud
* (card games) spades

##### Derived terms

* ကျည်ဖူး (kyanyhpu:)
* ကွန်းဖူး (kwan:hpu:)
* ငှက်ပျောဖူး (hngakpyau:hpu:)
* စိန်ဖူး (cinhpu:)
* ဆပ်သွားဖူး (hcapswa:hpu:)
* တိုင်ဖူး (tuinghpu:)
* ထန်းဖူး (htan:hpu:)
* ထန်းဖူးရစ် (htan:hpu:rac)
* ထိပ်ဖူး (htiphpu:)
* ပြောင်းဖူး (praung:hpu:)
* ပြောင်းဖူးဖက်လိပ် (praung:hpu:hpaklip)
* ပုရစ်ဖူး (pu.rachpu:)
* ဖက်ဖူးရောင် (hpakhpu:raung)
* ဖူးနီ (hpu:ni)
* ဖူးဖူးထ (hpu:hpu:hta.)
* ဖူးဖူးရောင် (hpu:hpu:raung)
* မာလာဖူး (malahpu:)
* မုန့်ဆပ်သွားဖူး (mun.hcapswa:hpu:)
* ဟင်းညံ့ဖူး (hang:nyam.hpu:)
* ဟင်းရမ်းဖူး (hang:ram:hpu:)

#### See also

Suits in Burmese · ဖဲအပွင့် (hpai:a.pwang.) (layout · text) :
| ဖူးနီ, ပိမ့် (hpu:ni, pim.) | ထောင့်, ချွန်း (htaung., hkywan:) | ဖူး (hpu:) | ညှင်း (hnyang:) |

### 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 by STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

#### Pronunciation

* Phonetic respellings: ဗူး, ဖူး
* IPA: /bú/, /pʰú/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hpu: • ALA-LC: phūʺ • BGN/PCGN: bu:/hpu: • Okell: hpù/hpù ဖုး

##### Usage notes

* /bú/ is used after vowels or /ɴ/, whereas /pʰú/ is used after /ʔ/.

#### Particle

ဖူး • (hpu:)
* indicates a perfect tense
    ဗမာပြည် ရောက်ဖူးသလား။ba.ma-prany raukhpu:sa.la:||Have you ever come to Burma?

##### Derived terms

* ကြားဖူးနားဝ (kra:hpu:na:wa.)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (48. to Behold with reverence or love))”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 33
* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (47. Bud; to Bud; edible Bulb Root)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 33

### Further reading

* “ဖူး” in Burmese/Myanmar Dictionary of Grammatical Forms (Routledge 2001, →ISBN), by John Okell and Anna Allott.
* “ဖူး” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.