Dictionary entry
ดู
duuverb
look; watch
Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never invented1v.
to look; watch; view; glancecurated
2v.
to examine; inspect; considercurated
3v.
to consider; regard; deemwiktionary
4v.
to look; seem; appearwiktionary
5v.
to look after; take care of; guard; protectwiktionary
6v.
to see; find out; learn; ascertainwiktionary
7v.
to see; foresee; foretellwiktionary
8adv.
for trial; experimentallywiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesตอนเด็กๆ พ่อพาผมไปดูครั้งหนึ่ง
When I was little, my dad took me there once.
เขาดูมีความสุข
He looks happy —
Built from
From Proto-Southwestern Tai *ˀduːᴬ³ (“to look; to watch”). Compare Lao ດູ (dū), Northern Thai ᨯᩪ, Tai Dam ꪒꪴ, Shan လူ (lǔu), Phake ꩫ︀ူ (nū), Ahom 𑜎𑜥 (lū). For the derived sense of "for trial", note a similar semantic association found in the unrelated Japanese 見る (miru, “to see; (auxiliary) to try”).