1. Pyu - Noun
2. Pyu - Proper noun
Pyu pl (plural only)
A people who flourished in ancient Burma.
Synonym: (former name) Tircul
Pyu
The Tibeto-Burman language of this people.
As was the case in the contemporary Pyu cities of central Burma, the majority of the population would have lived within the outer city, whose walls also enclosed the fields in which they worked. Source: Internet
As his campaign draws to a close, Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann’s bid for Pyu township is trudging toward the finish line with an uncertain outcome on the horizon. Source: Internet
In the election he overwhelmingly lost his Pyithu Hluttaw seat, outstripped by a former classmate and NLD member in their childhood hometown Pyu in Bago Region. Source: Internet
Recent archaeological research at a Pyu settlement in the Samon Valley (around 100 km south-east of Bagan) has shown that they had trade links with India from 500-400 BCE and with China around 200 BCE. Source: Internet
There was also a mass grave excavated at another place within Pyu bearing evidence of secondary burial, as in the case of the mass grave excavated near Sekta village in Imphal East. Source: Internet
Theravāda Buddhism: A Social History. 1988. p. 3 The Mon and Pyu were among the earliest people to inhabit Myanmar. Source: Internet