# ထူး
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰú/
* Romanization: MLCTS: htu: • ALA-LC: thūʺ • BGN/PCGN: htu: • Okell: htù

### 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 (thû "differ, be diverse, uncommon"). Bears superficial resemblance to Old Chinese 特 (OC *dɯːɡ, “special”), while Luce compares 殊 (OC *to, *djo, “different”).”

#### Verb

ထူး • (htu:)
* to be extraordinary
* to be different from others, special, unique

#### Particle

ထူး • (htu:)
* particle suffixed to a noun or pronoun to denote singularity

##### Derived terms

* ကိုယ်ထူး (kuiyhtu:)
* ကိုယ်ထူးကိုယ်ချွန် (kuiyhtu:kuiyhkywan)
* ဂုဏ်ထူး (gunhtu:)
* ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် (gunhtu:hcaung)
* ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်လက်မှတ် (gunhtu:hcaunglakhmat)
* ဂုဏ်ထူးတန်း (gunhtu:tan:)
* စစ်ရာထူးခန့်ချုပ် (cacrahtu:hkan.hkyup)
* ထဆင်ထူး (hta.hcanghtu:)
* ထွေထွေထူးထူး (htwehtwehtu:htu:)
* ထူးကဲ (htu:kai:)
* ထူးချွန် (htu:hkywan)
* ထူးခြား (htu:hkra:)
* ထူးဆန်း (htu:hcan:)
* ထူးထွေ (htu:htwe)
* ထူးမြတ် (htu:mrat)
* နေ့ထူးနေ့မြတ် (ne.htu:ne.mrat)
* မြီးထူးရိုး (mri:htu:rui:)
* မြူးထူး (mru:htu:)
* ရာထူး (rahtu:)
* ရာထူးချ (rahtu:hkya.)
* ရာထူးတိုး (rahtu:tui:)
* ရာထူးပြုတ် (rahtu:prut)
* ရာထူးလျှော (rahtu:hlyau:)
* လူထူး (luhtu:)
* သတ်ထူး (sathtu:)
* သူတစ်ထူး (sutachtu:)
* အကျိုးထူး (a.kyui:htu:)
* အကြောင်းထူး (a.kraung:htu:)
* အခွင့်ထူး (a.hkwang.htu:)
* အခွင့်ထူးခံ (a.hkwang.htu:hkam)
* အထူးထူး (a.htu:htu:)

##### Descendants

* → Shan: ထူး (thúu, “special”)

### 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 (thû "reply to a call"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

#### Verb

ထူး • (htu:)
* to answer a call; to respond

##### Derived terms

* မေးထူးခေါ်ပြော (me:htu:hkau-prau:)
* အဲထူး (ai:htu:)

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

ထူး • (htu:)
* fetters (esp. for elephants) (chain used to bind a person or animal by the legs)

##### Derived terms

* ဆင်ထူး (hcanghtu:)
* ထူးကွင်း (htu:kwang:)
* ထူးခတ် (htu:hkat)
* ထူးပွတ် (htu:pwat)

##### Descendants

* → Shan: ထူး (thúu, “fetters”)

### Etymology 4

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

#### Noun

ထူး • (htu:)
* a sinkhole, swallow-hole

##### Derived terms

* ထူးတွင်း (htu:twang:)
* ထူးအိုင် (htu:uing)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (34. Diverse; Extraordinary; Different, other)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 32

### Further reading

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

## Shan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰuː˥/
* Rhymes: -uː

### Etymology 1

From Burmese ထူး (htu:, “fetters”).

#### Noun

ထူး • (thúu)
* fetters.

### Etymology 2

From Burmese ထူး (htu:, “special”).

#### Adjective

ထူး • (thúu) (abstract noun တၢင်းထူး)
* special; different; unique.