ជូត

See also: ជិត and ជាតិ

Khmer

Pronunciation
Orthographic and Phonemic ជូត
jūt
WT romanisation cuut
(standard) IPA(key) /cuːt/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *[ ]ɟut ~ *[ ]ɟuut (“to wipe”); cognate with Mon ဇိုတ် (cɜ̀t), Pacoh dyuat, Koho juut.

Verb

ជូត • (cuut) (abstract noun ការជូត)

  1. to wipe (off), to dry with a towel, to clean (off)
  2. to dust
  3. to rub, polish

Affixed forms
  • ជំនូត (cumnuut)

Etymology 2

From Old Khmer ជូត (jūt, jūta), ជូត្រ (jūtra, “rat (zodiac)”), from Vietic. Compare Thai ชวด (chûuat); Vietnamese chuột.

Noun

ជូត • (cuut)

  1. (astrology) the Rat, one of the twelve lunar zodiac signs.

See also
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