ကိုက်

Burmese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɪʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: kuik • ALA-LC: kuikʻ • BGN/PCGN: kaik • Okell: kaiʔ

Noun

ကိုက် • (kuik)

  1. clamp; portable vice-like device for holding things together
  2. cross-beam bearing against a pair of longitudinal boards lining a sailboat
  3. spokeshave
  4. snips
  5. can opener
  6. scraper

Verb

ကိုက် • (kuik)

  1. to bite
  2. to ache (be in pain)
  3. to come up to (expectations, etc), agree; equal; correspond
  4. to be tight with (rust, etc)
  5. (regional, Myingyan) to cut (hair)[1]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi गज़ (gaz), from Classical Persian گز (gaz).

Noun

ကိုက် • (kuik)

  1. yard (unit of measurement)
Derived terms
  • ကိုက်တံ (kuiktam)
  • ကိုက်တောင် (kuiktaung)

References
  • “ကိုက်” in The Judson Burmese–English Dictionary (Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press 1921), page 201.
  • “ကိုက်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
  1. “အလင်္ကာပုလဲပန်း၊ မြင်းခြံနယ်က ဒေသိယဝေါဟာရများ ၂”, in BBC News မြန်မာ‎ (in Burmese), 2021 January 30

Mon

Noun

ကိုက် (kiuk)

  1. (blade of) a carpenter's plane

Verb

ကိုက် (kiuk)

  1. to be humpbacked or bent
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