twm

• IPA^(key): /tɨ˩̰/

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 特 (MC dok, “bull, ox”).[1]

twm (classifier: tus)

1. buffalo, water buffalo

   tus twm nyob hauv liaj ― the buffalo in the rice paddy

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 讀 (MC duwk, “to read, recite texts”).[1]

twm

1. to read

   Synonym: nyeem

   Ob tug menyuam tabtom twm ib phau ntawv. ― The two children are reading a book.

twm

1. single, independent, lone, alone

   twm tswb ― a single wild boar (which keeps to itself)

2. used in twm xeeb (“impatient, self-absorbed, narrow-minded”)

Attached before nouns, rather than after, in contrast to most Hmong adjectives.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 331.