# ခု
## Burmese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʰṵ/
* Romanization: MLCTS: hku. • ALA-LC: khu • BGN/PCGN: hku. • Okell: hkú

### 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 (khu⁵⁵ "fill (a bowl with rice)"). The "support", "be dissatisfied", and "fill" meanings are considered etymologically united by MED. For the "prop up, support" sense, Luce compares Old Chinese 靠 (OC *kʰuːɡs, “to lean on, recline; to depend on”).”

#### Verb

ခု • (hku.)
* to be supported by something (coming) from below, prop up
* to be dissatisfied with (someone), be offended
* to be filling (until it's not enough to change the rice)

##### Derived terms

* ခုခံ (hku.hkam)
* ခုတုံးလုပ် (hku.tum:lup)
* ခုနှိမ် (hku.hnim)
* ခုလတ် (hku.lat)
* ခုလုခုလုဖြစ် (hku.lu.hku.lu.hprac)
* ခေါင်းခု (hkaung:hku.)
* စိတ်ခု (cithku.)
* ပေါင်ပိုးခု (paungpui:hku.)
* လက်ခု (lakhku.)
* လမ်းခုလတ် (lam:hku.lat)

### 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 (khuʼ "unit (unit, an individual thing)"). Luce compares Old Chinese 䇢 (“bamboo”), which appears to be a typo on his part; he was most likely referring to 箇 (OC *kaːls, “unit, generic classifier”), though considering the "bamboo" semantics of the Chinese term which are lacking in the Burmese, this connection seems more tenuous (unless the Burmese term is a more recent loan from Sinitic).”

#### Classifier

ခု • (hku.)
* generic classifier used to count nouns; unit
    မျက်မှန် တစ်ခုmyakhman tachku.one pair of glasses
    စကားပုံ နှစ်ခုca.ka:pum hnachku.two proverbs
    ကုလားထိုင် သုံးခုku.la:htuing sum:hku.three chairs
    လက်မှတ် လေးခုlakhmat le:hku.four tickets

##### Usage notes

Used with nouns that cannot be assigned to another classifier, and sometimes with nouns that could have been assigned to another classifier.

##### Derived terms

* တစ်ခုလပ် (tachku.lap)
* တစ်စုံတစ်ခု (taccumtachku.)
* အဝတ်တစ်ထည်ကိုယ်တစ်ခု (a.wattachtanykuiytachku.)

### 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. MED considers this equivalent to the "unit" sense of Etymology 2 (suggested also by Luce's gloss of "numeral suffix" for Etym 2), based on the "same as ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “a year ending with a non-zero digit”)" definition given by MED.”

#### Noun

ခု • (hku.)
* the first term in a tenfold sequence starting with ခု (hku.), ဆယ် (hcai), the first number
* year

##### Derived terms

* ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “the year in a date which ends with a digit other than zero”)

### 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 (jɑ⁵³ khu⁵³ "now"), nor by Luce. MED links ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “this year”) with this as well, and appears to consider the "this year" sense etymologically equivalent to the "year not ending with a 0" sense. Oversight on MED's part, or potential etymological connection?”

#### Noun

ခု • (hku.)
* recently, now, the present (same as ယခု (ya.hku.))

##### Derived terms

* ခုတင်ခု (hku.tanghku.)
* ခုတလော (hku.ta.lau:)
* ခုထက်ထိ (hku.htakhti.)
* ခုန (hku.na.)
* ခုနှစ် (hku.hnac, “this year”)
* ခုနေ (hku.ne)
* ခုလုပ်ခုစား (hku.luphku.ca:)
* ခုလေးတင် (hku.le:tang)
* ယခု (ya.hku.)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (9. a Prop; to Prop up)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 31
* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-U Finals (10. Unit; Numeral Suffix”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 31

### Further reading

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

## Mon
### Verb

ခု (khu)
* to prop by a short prop or fulcrum.