တရုတ်
Burmese
Etymology
Uncertain. Formerly spelt တရုပ် (ta.rup), with earliest usage dating to the 1200s (Bagan era), during which it referred to the territory and a variety of peoples to the north and northeast of Burma. May be derived from 突厥 (tūjué), the Chinese term for "Turk;" 大理國/大理国, the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom; or 大月支 (dàyuèzhī) or 大月氏, a Chinese term referring to Mongol-speaking Kushan Huns.
Pronunciation
- Phonetic respelling: တ'ရုတ်
- IPA(key): /təjoʊʔ/
- Romanization: MLCTS: ta.rut • ALA-LC: tarutʻ • BGN/PCGN: tăyok • Okell: tăyouʔ
Proper noun
တရုတ် • (ta.rut)
Derived terms
- တရုတ်ကတ် (ta.rutkat)
- တရုတ်စံကား (ta.rutcamka:)
- တရုတ်ဆီးသီး (ta.ruthci:si:)
- တရုတ်နံနံ (ta.rutnamnam)
- တရုတ်နှင်းသီး (ta.ruthnang:si:)
- တရုတ်မဆလာ (ta.rutma.hca.la)
- တရုတ်မြောင်း (ta.rutmraung:)
- တရုတ်အိမ် (ta.rut-im)
- မဟုတ်တရုတ် (ma.hutta.rut)
References
- “တရုတ်” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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