တန်

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tàɴ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: tan • ALA-LC: tanʻ • BGN/PCGN: tan • Okell: tañ

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

တန် • (tan)

  1. to be worth.
  2. to be worthy of; deserve.
  3. to fit; befit.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

တန် • (tan)

  1. to stop; cease; desist.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Mon တန် (“cheap”).

Adjective

တန် • (tan)

  1. worthless; good for nothing.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Classifier

တန် • (tan)

  1. numerical classifier used in counting different legs of a journey, component parts of abstract concepts.

Etymology 5

From English ton

Noun

တန် • (tan)

  1. ton (unit of weight).

References

Mon

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɔn/[1]
  • (file)

Etymology 1

From Burmese တန်း (tan:)[1]

Noun

တန် (tan)

  1. class, standard, grade in school.[1]
    မၞးဗ္တောန်ဒၟံၚ်ပ္ဍဲတန်လဵုရော။
    mnaḥ bton dmaṃṅ pḍoa tan liuwro.
    Which class are you in?

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

တန် (tan)

  1. bamboo rat[2]
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Burmese တန် (tan, “worthless”).

Verb

တန် (tan)

  1. to be cheap.[1]
    အဲသွံဂၠဴအဲတန်တန်။[1]
    ʼoaswaʼglaoʼoa tantan.
    I sold my cattle cheap.

Verb

တန် (tan)

  1. Alternative spelling of သ္တန် (“to stand”)[3]

Etymology 5

Inherited from Old Mon တူန် (“to return”)[4]

Alternative forms

Verb

တန် (tan)

  1. to recur[2]

Preposition

တန် (tan)

  1. Marks change of subject of discourse.[2]

References
  1. Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  2. Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net. (Look word up in the form တုန်.)
  3. R. Halliday (1922) A Mon-English Dictionary‎, Bangkok: Siam Society, page 184 & 438
  4. Jenny, Mathias (2005) The verb system of Mon, University of Zurich, →DOI, →ISBN, page 189: “Another OM verb, ‹tūn› ‘return, go back’ has developed into a particle denoting emphasis or topicality in LM.”

Pa'o Karen

Etymology

From Proto-Karen [Term?] (“big”).

Adjective

တန် (tan)

  1. big
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