ဓနု

Burmese

Pronunciation

• Phonetic respelling: ဓ'နု
• IPA^(key): /dənṵ/
• Romanization: MLCTS: dha.nu. • ALA-LC: dhanu • BGN/PCGN: dănu. • Okell: dănú

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit धनु (dhanu).

Noun

ဓနု • (dha.nu.)

1. (astrology) Sagittarius

Etymology 2

From Pali dhanu, Pali ဓနု (dhanu).

Proper noun

ဓနု • (dha.nu.)

1. Danu, an ethnic group in Myanmar (Burma)

Descendants

• → English: Danu
• → Shan: တၼူႉ (tǎ nṵ̂u)
• → Shan: ထၼူႉ (thǎ nṵ̂u)

See also

Zodiac signs in Burmese · ရာသီရုပ် (rasirup) (layout · text)
မိဿ (mi.ssa.)	ပြိဿ (pri.ssa.)	မေထုန် (mehtun)	ကရကဋ် (ka.ra.kat)
သိဟ် (sih)	ကန် (kan)	တူ (tu)	ဗြိစ္ဆာ (brichca)
ဓနု (dha.nu.)	မကရ (ma.ka.ra.)	ကုံ (kum)	မိန် (min)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• dhanu (Latin script)
• 𑀥𑀦𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• धनु (Devanagari script)
• ধনু (Bengali script)
• ධනු (Sinhalese script)
• ꩪၼု (Burmese script)
• ธนุ or ธะนุ (Thai script)
• ᨵᨶᩩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຘນຸ or ຘະນຸ (Lao script)
• ធនុ (Khmer script)
• 𑄙𑄚𑄪 (Chakma script)

Noun

ဓနု n

1. Burmese script form of dhanu (“bow (weapon)”)

Declension

Declension table of "ဓနု" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	ဓနု (dhanu)	ဓနူနိ (dhanūni) or ဓနူ (dhanū)
Accusative (second)	ဓနုံ (dhanuṃ)	ဓနူနိ (dhanūni) or ဓနူ (dhanū)
Instrumental (third)	ဓနုနာ (dhanunā)	ဓနူဟိ (dhanūhi) or ဓနူဘိ (dhanūbhi)
Dative (fourth)	ဓနုဿ (dhanussa) or ဓနုနော (dhanuno)	ဓနူနံ (dhanūnaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	ဓနုသ္မာ (dhanusmā) or ဓနုမှာ (dhanumhā)	ဓနူဟိ (dhanūhi) or ဓနူဘိ (dhanūbhi)
Genitive (sixth)	ဓနုဿ (dhanussa) or ဓနုနော (dhanuno)	ဓနူနံ (dhanūnaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	ဓနုသ္မိံ (dhanusmiṃ) or ဓနုမှိ (dhanumhi)	ဓနူသု (dhanūsu)
Vocative (calling)	ဓနု (dhanu)	ဓနူနိ (dhanūni) or ဓနူ (dhanū)