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Burmese words with vowel 'A' — (Part 1) from (က) to ()

Burmese language is made up of a large proportion of monosyllable words where a single word has a meaning in itself. For example, က | ka1 means to dance, and ကျ | kja1 means fall down. Those words are sometimes used as root words to form longer words or phrases, such as the word | ma1, which negates the verb that follows it.

I have already gone through the introduction of some of those words in Lesson 1 and Myanmar Script Learning Guide in Lesson 33. Those words will be fully covered here with explanations. The listing includes words with initial consonants from the 33 main characters as well as modified consonants using consonant modification symbols. The order of listing follows the standard Myanmar dictionary format. Those single-syllable words will not only help you to build up Burmese vocabulary starting from the simplest, they will also aid in reading and writing (or typing) skills.

I believe that grouping the Myanmar vocabulary by vowel sounds has advantages. When learning a new foreign word, you need to remember not only the meaning of the word, but also the pronunciation. When new words with similar spelling patterns are associated with certain sound group, learning process becomes more efficient.

Secondly, to recall a word or to search for the meaning of the word that you have heard of somewhere becomes easier if you remember that the word belongs to certain phonetic group.

Thirdly, vocabulary listings with Burmese to English translation captures the essential and common usages in Burmese that you will not find in English to Burmese dictionaries. To give an example, the word ba2 will never make it as an separate entry into English to Burmese dictionary although it is very commonly used.

Moreover, with English to Burmese dictionary alone, you will not know that the same Burmese word with the same spelling or other words with similar sound could mean several things in English.

Let's start with vowel "A" in 3 tone variations. As explained in lesson1, the words with the stand-alone (single syllable) vowel "A" in the first tone will have the full sound such as ka1 when spoken, as opposed to a short sound such as in ကဗျာ | ga1-bya2 (Poem).

To change into the second tone, add yay3-cha1 to the right, which comes in two shapes: or .

To further change into the third tone, add | shay1 ga1 pout to the right of yay3-cha1.

In addition to the main single-syllable words that the beginners must first focus on, I have also included words in the same vowel group, so Lesson 36 to Lesson 57 can be used as an essential mini-dictionary arranged in vowel groups. If you are looking for more complete entries, please refer to Myanmar English Dictionary.

Ah1 - Ah2 - Ah3 | အ - အာ - အား

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Myanmar Script has 33 main characters or letters. The first letter က - ka1 means to dance.

The First Letter in Burmese Script

Burmese Script has 33 main characters or letters. The first letter က "ka1" means to dance. (38 seconds). This is not a traditional dance like မှုန်ရွှေရည် (Hmone2 Shway2 Yi2) for which I had already dedicated the whole lesson explaining word by word.

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  1. က | ka1; ka1; MP3 Audio File ga1 MP3 Audio File

    (1) the first character ကကြီး | ka1 ji3. (2) to dance. (3) from. E.g.,

    ဘယ်ကလာလဲ | beare2 ga1 la2 leare3 - Where do you come from?

    Words with ka1:

    1. ကချင် | ka1-chin2 - various ethnic people in Kachin state.
    2. ကစား | ga1-za3 MP3 Audio File - to play.
    3. ကစားကွင်း | ga1-za3 gwin3 - playground.
    4. ကစားစရာ | ga1-za3 sa1-ya2 - toy.
    5. ကစားပွဲ | ga1-za3 bweare3 MP3 Audio File - sports event.
    6. ကစါးမလား | ga1-za3 ma1-la3 MP3 Audio File - Do you want to play or not?
    7. ကစါးမယ် | ga1-za3 meare2 MP3 Audio File - OK, I will (play)
    8. ကစဉ့်ကလျား | ga1-zin1 ga1-ya3 - in disorder.
    9. ကညွတ် | ka1-nyoot MP3 Audio File - asparagus.
    10. ကဏန်း | ga1-nun3 MP3 Audio File - crab.
    11. ကဏန်းပေါင်း | ga1-nun3 boun3 MP3 Audio File - Steamed Crab.
    12. ကတိ | ga1-de1 - promise.
    13. ကတော့ | ga1-dau1 - funnel.

    14. ကတည်းက | ga1-deare3-ga1 - since. E.g., မနက် ကတည်းက စောင့်နေတယ်။ | ma1-net ga1-deare3-ga1 soun1 nay2 deare2 - (I have been) waiting since this morning.

    15. ကတုန်ကယင် | ga1-dome2 ga1-yin2 MP3 Audio File - shaking and trembling with fear.

    16. ကတွတ်သီး | ga1-doot thi3 MP3 Audio File - a type of country fig used to make sweet snack.

    17. ကထိက | ka1-hti1-ka1 MP3 Audio File - lecturer.

    18. ကထိန် | ka1-htain2 - Offering to several Buddhist monasteries around November on lucky-draw basis. (See lesson 26 for more.)

    19. ကနစိုသီး | ka1-na1-so2 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - Myanmar Grapes.

    20. ကနုကမာ | ka1-nu1 ka1-ma2 or ကမာ | ka1-ma2 MP3 Audio File - oyster that bears pearl inside its shell; a delicacy.

    21. ကနူး၊ ကယက် | ka1-nu3 ka1-yet MP3 Audio File - Canoe/Kayak.
    22. ကနွဲ့ကလျ | ka1-nweare1 ka1-lya1 - in girlish manner as opposed to manly manner.

    23. ကပိုကရို | ga1-bo2 ga1-yo2 - with unkempt appearance.
    24. ကပေါက်တိကပေါက်ချာ | ga1-bout-de1 ga1-bout-cha2 - in illogical, absurd, nonsensical manner.

    25. ကပျာကယာ | ga1-bya2 ga1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - in a hurry; hurriedly.

    26. ကပြက်ကချော် | ga1-byet ka1-chau2 - carelessly and anyhow does something resulting in poor workmanship.

    27. ကဗျာ | ga1-bya2 - poem.
    28. ကဗျာဆရာ | ka1-bya2 hsa1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - poet.
    29. ကဗျာဆန် | ga1-bya2 hsun2 - poetic.
    30. ကမကထ | ka1-ma1 ka1-hta1 - supervise.
    31. ကမောက်ကမ | ka1-mout ka1-ma1 MP3 Audio File - in chaos; in disorder.
    32. ကမန်းကတန်း | ga1-mun3 ga1-dun3 MP3 Audio File - in a rush.
    33. ကမြင်းကြောထ | ka1-myin3-jau3 hta1 - monkey around.
    34. ကယား | ka1-ya3 - ethnic "Kaya" people to the north of Kayin State.

    35. ကယောင်ချောက်ချား | ga1-youn2 chout-cha3 MP3 Audio File - in a deranged state of mind with unreasonable fear; fearfully and incoherently with phobia.

    36. ကရဝေးရွက် | ka1-ra1-way3 ywet MP3 Audio File - bay leaf.

    37. ကရဝိက် | ka1-ra1-wate - mythical bird. (Note: the tourist attraction in Kandawgyi lake, Yangon is misspelled as ကရဝိတ် on some maps.)

    38. ကရာတေး | ka1-ra2-tay3 MP3 Audio File - Japanese martial art "Karate".
    39. ကရုဏာ | ga1-yu1-na2 - [Pali] compassion.

    40. ကရုဏာစိတ် | ga1-yu1-na2 zate MP3 Audio File - mind having compassion; compassionate mind.

    41. ကရင် | ka1-yin2 - ethnical "Kayin" also known as "Karen" group.

    42. ကလတက် | ka1-la1-det - hollowed log, which is being replaced by recorded sound in some monasteries, stroke or played as a wake up call usually around 4 in the morning. A series of beats has increasing timing followed by decreasing timing to a stop. The pattern is repeated for about three times.

    43. ကလီစာ | ka1-li2-za2 - tripe and viscera of pigs or bovine used as delicacy in cooking.

    44. ကလေကချေ | ka1-lay2 ka1-chay2 - unrefined and uneducated person.
    45. ကလေး | kha1-lay3 MP3 Audio File - child; infant; baby.
    46. ကလေးထိန်း | kha1-lay3 dain3 MP3 Audio File - nanny.
    47. ကလဲ့စားချေ | ga1-leare1-za3 chay2 - take revenge.
    48. ကလန်ကဆန် | ka1-lun2 ka1-hsun2 - rebelliously.
    49. ကလန်ကလား | ga1-lun2 ga1-la3 - lanky.
    50. ကလိမ်ကျ | ka1-lain2 kja1 - swindle.
    51. ကလျာ | ka1-lya2 - desirable features of a woman with excellent figure, hair, skin, bones, and youthfulness.

    52. ကသိကအောင့်ဖြစ် | ka1-thi1 ka1-oun1 pfyit - caused uncomfortable feeling.

  2. ကာ | ka2 MP3 Audio File - to block; to shield; to defend as in ကာကွယ် | ka2-gweare2. Related words: (1) ကာကွယ်ဆေး | ka2-gweare2-zay3 - vaccine. (2) ကာကွယ်ရေး | ka2-gweare2-yay3 - defence. Other Usages:

    1. ကာတွန်းဆရာ | ka2-toon3 hsa1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - cartoonist.
    2. ကာယဗလ | ka2-ya1 ba1-la1 MP3 Audio File - Bodybuilding.
    3. ကာလဝမ်းရောဂါ | ka2-la1 wun3 yau3-ga2 MP3 Audio File - cholera.
    4. ကာလသားရောဂါ | ka2-la1-dtha3 yau3-ga2 MP3 Audio File - sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and venereal disease.

  3. ကား | ka3; ka3 MP3 Audio File (1) exaggerate; spread legs or hands. (2) [English] car. Examples:

    1. ကားငှားလုပ်ငန်း | ka3 hnga3 loat-ngan3 - MP3 Audio File - car rental.
    2. ကားထဲမှာ | ka3 hteare3 hma2 - MP3 Audio File - inside the car.
    3. ကားပေါ်တက် | ka3 bau2 tet - MP3 Audio File - go inside the car!


  4. ကျ | kja1 - MP3 Audio File (1) fall down. E.g., သူသစ်ပင်ပေါ်ကပြုတ်ကျတယ်။ | thu2 thit-pin2 pau2 ga1 pyoat kja1 deare2 - He fell down from the tree.

    (2) fail. E.g., မောင်ဘစာမေးပွဲကျပြန်ပြီ။ | moun2-ba1 sa2-may3-bweare3 kja1 pyan2 byi2 - Maung Ba failed the exams again.

    (3) to cost. E.g., ဘယ်လောက်ကျမလဲ။ | beare2-lout kja1 ma1-leare3 - how much will the service cost?

    (4) die in battle.

    (5) be in certain positive condition or desirable state of mind. Examples:

    1. စိတ်တိုင်းကျ | sate-tine3-kja1 - be as one wishes.
    2. ဇိမ်ကျ | zain kja1 - be in the state of enjoyment.
    3. သဘောကျ | dtha1-bau3 kja1 - be highly appreciative of the beauty or something desirable.

    4. ဟန်ကျ | hun2 kja1 - something to turn out as one's need; be in luck.
    5. ကျကျနန | kja1-kja1 na1 na1 MP3 Audio File - properly done to one's heart desire.

Burmese word ကျ | kja1 can mean many things: to fall down, objects to drop, to fail the exam. item to cost certain amount of money, to die in the battle, or the satisfied and desired state of the mind over something. It can also be used for the season or the occasion to arrive or fall on certain date and time. For example, the traditional three days (now 4 days) of the Thingyan water festivals are compared to the three phases of the lunar eclipse where the shadow of the Earth falls ကျ | kja1, moves over completely ကြတ် | kjut, and out of the moon တက် | tet.

Fall

Burmese word ကျ | kja1 can mean many things: to fall down, objects to drop, to fail the exam. item to cost certain amount of money, to die in the battle, or the satisfied and desired state of the mind over something. It can also be used for the season or the occasion to arrive or fall on certain date and time. For example, the traditional three days (now 4 days) of the Thingyan water festivals are compared to the three phases of the lunar eclipse where the shadow of the Earth falls ကျ | kja1, moves over completely ကြတ် | kjut, and out the moon တက် | tet. [38 seconds]

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May Thu | မေသူ | may2 thu2 and Jade Dragon Dancer Group
  1. ကျား | kja3 MP3 Audio File - (1) tiger. (2) checkers game. (3) buttress; support in building structure. (4) short for Men as in Men's room.

  2. ကြ | kja1 MP3 Audio File - volume measurement for granary equivalent to 256 တင်း | tin3.

  3. ကြ | ja1 MP3 Audio File - suffix after verbs to indicate plurality; reference to more than one person. E.g., နေကောင်းကြလား | nay2 koun3 ja1 la3 - How's everyone?

  4. ကြာ | kja2; kja2 MP3 Audio File - (1) take a long time. E.g., ကြာလိုက်တာ။ | kja2 lite da2 - Why is it taking so long? (2) lotus; water lily. Other Usage:

    1. ကြာဆံကြော် | kja2-zun2 jau2 MP3 Audio File - Fried Rice Vermicelli.
    2. ကြာဆံဟင်းခါး | kja2-zun2 hin3-ga3 MP3 Audio File - Vermicelli Soup.
    3. ကြာညို့ | kja2-nyo1 MP3 Audio File - Soya Sauce (thick).
    4. ကြာသပတေး | kja2-dtha2-ba1-day3 MP3 Audio File - Thursday.

  5. ကြား | kja3 MP3 Audio File - hear something. E.g., ကြားရလား။ | kja3 ya1 la3 - Can you hear me?

  6. ကြား | ja3 MP3 Audio File - in-between; interim.

  7. ကွ | kwa1 MP3 Audio File - colloquial ending word used when explaining or telling something to someone with enthusiasm. E.g., ဒီမှာကွ။ | de2 hma2 kwa1 - It's right here!

  8. ကွာ | kwa2; kwa2 MP3 Audio File - (1) colloquial ending word to express frustration. E.g., ကြာလိုက်တာကွာ။ | kja2 lite da2 kwa2 - It's taking ages!

    (2) be separated; differ. Other Usages:

    1. ကွာရှင်း | kwa2 shin3 - divorce.
    2. ကွာစိ | kwa2-si1 MP3 Audio File - water-melon seed.

  9. ကြွ | kjwa1 - MP3 Audio File (1) arrival of honorable person; to invite such persons. (2) [slang] get killed as in ကြွသွားပြီ | kjwa1 thwa3 byi2.

  10. ကြွား | kjwa3 MP3 Audio File - brag.

  11. | kha1; kha1; MP3 Audio File

    (1) the second character ခခွေး | kha1 gway3.

    (2) approach someone with respect.

    (3) part of male Burmese names as in မောင်မောင်ခ | moun2 moun2 kha1 - Maung Maung Kha.

    (4) common names for streets as in ခရေပင်လမ်း | kha1-yay2-bin2 lun3 - Khayae Pin Road. (Indian Medlar tree.)

    Words with kha1:

    1. ခဏ | kha1-na1 - for a while. E.g., ဒီမှာခဏစောင့် | de2 hma2 kha1-na1 soun1 - Wait here for a while.

    2. ခဏခဏ | kha1-na1 kha1-na1 MP3 Audio File - frequently; often.
    3. ခဏတစ်ဖြုတ် | kha1-na1 ta1-pfyoat MP3 Audio File - momentarily.
    4. ခဏနေ | kha1-na1 nay2 MP3 Audio File - later.
    5. ခနော်ခနဲ့ | kha1-nau2 kha1-neare1 MP3 Audio File - not strong, firm, or secure in structure; flimsily built with shaky structure.

    6. ခမောက် | kha1-mout - bamboo hat with broad brim all around.
    7. ခမည်းတော် | kha1-mi3-dau2 - father of Buddhist monks or royalty. Sometimes the word is also used to show euphoric effect for a father of an ordinary person.

    8. ခရာ | kha1-ya2 - bugle.
    9. ခရီး | kha1-yi3 - journey.
    10. ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်း | kha1-yi3-thwa3 loat-ngan3 MP3 Audio File - travel agency.

    11. ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းဝန်ထမ်း | kha1-yi3-thwa3 loat-ngan3 woon2-dun3 MP3 Audio File - travel agent.

    12. ခရု | kha1-yu1 - snail; shellfish.
    13. ခရုဆီ | kha1-yu1 zi2 MP3 Audio File - oyster sauce.
    14. ခရိုင် | kha1-yine2 - district.

    15. ခရိုင်ဝန် | kha1-yine2 woon2 MP3 Audio File - district commissioner (during the British colonial time.)

    16. ခရစ်ကက် | kha1-rit-ket MP3 Audio File - Cricket.
    17. ခရစ်တော် | kha1-rit-tau2 - Jesus Christ.
    18. ခရစ်ယာန် | kha1-rit-yan2 - Christian.

    19. ခရိယာန်ဘုန်းကြီး | kha1-rit-yan2 pfone3-ji3 MP3 Audio File - Chistian cleric; priest; clergyman.

    20. ခရမ်းသီး | kha1-yan3 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - egg-plant.
    21. ခရမ်းချဉ်သီး | kha1-yan3-jin2 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - tomato.
    22. ခရမ်းရောင် | kha1-yan3 youn2 MP3 Audio File - purple; violet.
    23. ခရမ်းလွန်ရောင်ခြည် | kha1-yan3-loon2 youn2-ji2 - ultraviolet rays.
    24. ခလုတ် | kha1-loat - switch.
    25. ခလုတ်တိုက် | kha1-loat tite - trip over.
    26. ခလုတ်နှိပ် | kha1-loat hnate - press the button.
    27. ခလုတ်ပိတ် | kha1-loat pate - switch off.
    28. ခလုတ်ဖွင့် | kha1-loat pfwin1 - switch on.
    29. ခဝဲသီး | kha1-weare3 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - Ridged gourd.

  12. ခါ | kha2; kha2 MP3 Audio File - (1) shake off. E.g., ခါချလိုက်။ | kha2 cha1 lite - shake it off. (2) suffix used for frequency and time.

    ခါချဉ် | kha2-jin2 - red ant.

  13. ခါး | kha3; kha3 MP3 Audio File - (1) bitter (2) waist.

  14. ချ | cha1 MP3 Audio File - (1) [slang] to fight. (2) [slang] consume alcohol, etc..

    (3) put down; lower something. E.g., ဒီမှာချ။ | de2 hma2 cha1 - Put it down here.

    ခြင်ထောင်ချ | chin2-doun2 cha1 MP3 Audio File - set up a mosquito-net.

    (4) to place or arrange something.

  15. ချာ | cha2 MP3 Audio File - inferior in quality.

  16. ချား | cha3 MP3 Audio File - ferris-wheel. ချားစီး | cha3 si3 - ride a ferris-wheel.

  17. ခြ | cha1 MP3 Audio File - termite.

  18. ခြာ | cha2 MP3 Audio File - occur at intervals.

  19. ခြား | cha3 MP3 Audio File - differ; separate.

  20. ခွ | khwa1 MP3 Audio File gwa1 - (1) straddle as in ခွစီး | khwa1 si3 - ride by sitting astride. (2) wrench; spanner.

  21. ခွ | gwa1 MP3 Audio File - be in a difficult situation as in ခွကျတာပဲ။ | gwa1 kja1 da2 beare3.

  22. ခွာ | khwa2; khwa2 MP3 Audio File - (1) hoof. (2) peel off. (3) pull away as in ဆုတ်ခွာ | hsoat khwa2.

  23. | ga1 MP3 Audio File the third character ဂငယ် | ga1 ngeare2 . Words with ga1:

    1. ဂရိ | ga1-ri1 - Greece.
    2. ဂရုစိုက် | ga1-yu1 site - be attentive; be caring.
    3. ဂရုတစိုက် | ga1-yu1 da1-zite - attentively.

    Words that sound like ga1:

    1. ကန်စွန်းရွက် | ga1-zoon3 ywet MP3 Audio File - watercress (Kang Kong).
    2. ကန်စွန်းဥ | ga1-zoon3 u1 MP3 Audio File - sweet potato.

    3. ကန်တော့ | ga1-dau1 - Burmese Buddhists to show respect to the elders, teachers and the monks by putting the palms together in the kneeling position, and the upper body is bent forward until the palms touch the ground. The act is repeated three times.

    4. ခါးပိုက်နှိုက် | ga1-bite-hnite - pick-pocket.
    5. ခေါင်းတုံး | ga1-dome3 - bald head; clean-shaven head.

  24. ဂျ | ja1 as in ဂျပန်ပြည် | ja1-pan2 pyi2 - Japan.

  25. ဂျာ | ja2 as in ဂျာမနီ | ja2-ma1-ni2 - Germany.

  26. | ga1 MP3 Audio File the fourth character ဃကြီး | ga1 ji3.

  27. | nga1 - MP3 Audio File (1) the fifth character. (2) derogatory prefix used as names or in front of names such as ငကြွား | nga1-kjwa3 - braggart. Other Usages:

    1. ငရုတ်ကောင်း | nga1-yoat-goun3 MP3 Audio File - Pepper.

    2. ငရုတ်ချို | nga1-yoat cho2 MP3 Audio File - Green pepper (larger, longer, and less hot).

    3. ငရုတ်ပွ | nga1-yoat bwa1 MP3 Audio File - Bell pepper.
    4. ငရုတ်ဆီ | nga1-yoat hsi2 MP3 Audio File - Chilli sauce.
    5. ငရုတ်သီး | nga1-yoat thi3 MP3 Audio File - Chilli.
    6. ငရုတ်သီးမှုန့် | nga1-yoat-thi3 hmome1 MP3 Audio File - Chilli powder.


  28. ငါ့ | nga1 MP3 Audio File - [informal] my. E.g., အဲဒါငါ့ဟာကွ။ | eare1-da2 nga1 ha2 kwa1 - That's mine!

  29. ငါ | nga2 MP3 Audio File - [informal] I; colloquial first person term used when speaking to one's equal or lower in social status.

    ငါတို့ | nga2-doh1 MP3 Audio File - We (among peers).

  30. ငါး | nga3 MP3 Audio File - (1) fish. Related Words:

    1. ငါးကျည်း | nga1-ji3 MP3 Audio File - Catfish (small).
    2. ငါးကြင်း | nga1-jin3 MP3 Audio File - Hamilton's Carp.
    3. ငါးကြင်းမျက်ဆန်နီ | nga1-jin3 myet-hsun2-ni2 MP3 Audio File - Red-eyed gudgeon.
    4. ငါးကွမ်းရှပ် | nga1-koon3-shut MP3 Audio File - Mackerel.
    5. ငါးခူ | nga1-khu2 MP3 Audio File - Catfish.
    6. ငါးချိုချဉ်ကြော် | nga3 cho2-chin2 jau2 MP3 Audio File - Sweet & Sour Fish.
    7. ငါးပူတင်း | nga1-pu2-din3 MP3 Audio File - Globe Fish.
    8. ငါးဖမ်းလုပ်ငန်း | nga3 pfun3 loat-ngan3 MP3 Audio File - fishery.
    9. ငါးဖယ် | nga1-pfeare2 MP3 Audio File - Featherback.
    10. ငါးဖောင်ရိုး | nga1-pfoun2-yo3 MP3 Audio File - Garfish.
    11. ငါးမုတ် | nga1-moat MP3 Audio File - Pomfret.
    12. ငါးမန်းတောင်ဟင်းချို | nga1-mun3-doun2 hin3-jo2 MP3 Audio File - Shark Fins Soup.
    13. ငါးမဲလုံး | nga1-meare3-lone3 MP3 Audio File - Tuna fish.
    14. ငါးမြစ်ချင်း | nga1-myit-chin3 MP3 Audio File - Carp.
    15. ငါးရံ့ | nga1-yun1 MP3 Audio File - Snakehead fish.
    16. ငါးရွှေ | nga1-shway2 MP3 Audio File - Congereel.
    17. ငါးရှဉ့် | nga1-shin1 MP3 Audio File - Eel.
    18. ငါးရှဉ့်ကြော် | nga1-shin1 jau2 MP3 Audio File - Crispy hot eels.
    19. ငါးသလောက် | nga1-tha1-lout MP3 Audio File - Hilsa.
    20. ငါးသလောက်ပေါင်း | nga1-tha1-lout boun3 MP3 Audio File - Braised Hilsa.
    21. ငါးသလဲထိုး | nga1-tha1-leare3-hto3 MP3 Audio File - Loach.
    22. ငါးသေတ္တာငါး | nga3-thit-ta2 nga3 MP3 Audio File - Sardine.
    23. ငါးဟင်း | nga3 hin3 MP3 Audio File - Curry Fish.
    24. ငါးဥ | nga3 u1 MP3 Audio File - Roe.

    (2) five. Related Words:

    1. ငါးဆယ် | nga3 zeare2 MP3 Audio File - fifty (50).
    2. ငါးရာ | nga3 ya2 MP3 Audio File - five hundred (500).
    3. ငါးထောင် | nga3 htoun2 MP3 Audio File - five thousand (5,000).
    4. ငါးသောင်း | nga3 dthoun3 MP3 Audio File - fifty thousand (50,000).

  31. ငြာ | nya2 MP3 Audio File - shout in a sense to incite and rouse emotions or show of support as in ငြာသံပေး | nya2 dthun2 pay3 - make a rallying cry.

    ကြော်ငြာ | kjau2-nya2 - advertisement.

  32. ငှ | hnga1 MP3 Audio File - distribute as in ဝေငှ | way2 hnga1.

  33. ငှာ | hnga2 MP3 Audio File - suffix used as 'for' as in အကျိုးငှာ | a-kjo3 hnga2 - for the benefit of.

  34. ငှား | hnga3 MP3 Audio File - (1) borrow something; rent a house or a car. E.g., ကားငှားချင်တယ်။ | ka3 hnga3 chin2 deare2 - I want to rent a car.

    (2) lend or loan something to someone. ငှားရမ်း | hnga3-yan3 MP3 Audio File - to rent, to let out, to hire [literary/formal].

    (3) hire people and helping hands as in လူငှား | lu2 hnga3. MP3 Audio File

  35. | sa1; sa1 ; sa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the sixth character စလုံး | sa1 lone3 . (2) start. (3) to tease. (4) combined with other words for euphonic effect as in ရှက်စနိုး | shet-sa1-no3 - bashful.

    Words with sa1:

    1. စကား | za1-ga3 - spoken language; speak; speech.
    2. စကားပြော | za1-ga3 pyau3 MP3 Audio File - chit chat.
    3. စကားပြန် | za1-ga1-byan2 MP3 Audio File - interpreter.
    4. စတော်ဘယ်ရီ | sa1-tau2-beare2-ri2 MP3 Audio File - Strawberry.

    5. စတော်ဘယ်ရီနို့အေး | sa1-tau2-beare2-yi2 no1-ay3 MP3 Audio File - Strawberry milk-shake.

    6. စတုတ္ထ | za1-doat-hta1 MP3 Audio File - fourth.
    7. စနေ | sa1-nay2 MP3 Audio File - Saturday.
    8. စပါး | za1-ba3 - uncooked rice grains.
    9. စပါးလင် | za1-ba1-lin2 MP3 Audio File - lemon grass.
    10. စပယ်ရာ | sa1-peare2-ya2 MP3 Audio File - bus ticket conductor.
    11. စပျစ်သီး | za1-byit thi3 MP3 Audio File - grapes.
    12. စပိန် | sa1 pain2 - Spain.
    13. စမုန်စပါး | sa1-mone2 za1-ba3 MP3 Audio File - Aniseed.
    14. စမုန်နက် | sa1-mone2-net MP3 Audio File - black cumin.
    15. စလုတ် | za1-loat MP3 Audio File - Adam's apple.
    16. စအို | sa1-oh2 MP3 Audio File - anus.

  36. စာ | sa2; sa2; sa2 - MP3 Audio File (1) writing; letter. Related Words:

    1. စာကြည့်တိုက်မှုး | sa2-kji1-dite hmu3 MP3 Audio File - librarian.
    2. စာတည်း | sa2 de3 MP3 Audio File - editor.
    3. စာတည်းမှုးချုပ် | sa2-de3-hmu3 joat MP3 Audio File - chief editor.
    4. စာပို့လုလင် | sa2-po1 lu1-lin2 MP3 Audio File - postman; letter carrier.
    5. စာရေးဆရာ | sa2-ya3 hsa1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - writer; author.
    6. စာအုပ်ဆိုင် | sa2-oat hsine2 MP3 Audio File - bookshop.
    7. မြန်မာစာ | myan2-ma2 sa2 - Burmese Language.

    (2) sparrow.
    (3) sympathize with as in စာနာ | sa2 na2.

    (4) a portion of food alloted to be served in certain time frame as in

    1. ညစာ | nya1 za2 - dinner.
    2. မနက်စါစါး | ma1-net-sa2 sa3 MP3 Audio File - have breakfast.
    3. နေ့လယ်စာစား | nay1-leare2-za2 sa3 MP3 Audio File - have lunch.
    4. ညစာစား | nya1 za2 sa3 MP3 Audio File - have dinner.

    (5) for a certain number as in နှစ်ယောက်စာ | hna1-yout sa2 - for two persons. Other Usages:

    1. စားဖိုမှုး | sa1-pfo2-hmu3 MP3 Audio File - chef.
    2. စာရေး | sa1-yay3 MP3 Audio File - secretary / clerk.
    3. စာရင်း | sa1-yin3 - list.
    4. စာရင်းကိုင် | sa1-yin3-ghine2 MP3 Audio File - accountant.
    5. စာရင်းချုပ် | sa1-yin3 joat MP3 Audio File - comptroller.
    6. စာရင်းစစ် | sa1-yin3 sit MP3 Audio File - auditor.
    7. စာရင်းစစ်ချုပ် | sa1-yin3-sit joat MP3 Audio File - auditor general.

  37. စား | sa3 MP3 Audio File - (1) to eat or to consume.

    1. စါးကြစို့ | sa3 ja1-zo1 MP3 Audio File - Let's eat!
    2. စါးကြမယ် | sa3 ja1 meare2 MP3 Audio File - Let's eat!

    (2) make a living as in ဘာလုပ်စားလဲ။ | ba2 loat sa3 leare3 - What do you do for living?

    (3) corrode as in သံချေးစား | thun2-ji3 sa3.

    (4) erode. E.g., ရေစါးသွားပြီ။ | yay2 sa3 thwa3 byi2. - eroded by water.

    (5) [Math] divide.

    Words with sa3:

    1. စားပွဲ | za1-bweare3 - table.
    2. စားပွဲတင်တင်းနစ် | za1-bweare3 tin2 tin3-nit MP3 Audio File - table tennis.
    3. စားပွဲထိုး | za1-bweare3-hto3 MP3 Audio File - waiter.
    4. စားပွဲရှင်း | za1-bweare3 shin3 MP3 Audio File - clean up the table.
    5. စားပွဲပေါ် | za1-bweare3 pau2 MP3 Audio File - on the table.
    6. စားသောက်ဆိုင် | sa3-thout hsine2 MP3 Audio File - restaurant; eatery.
    7. စားအုန်းဆီ | sa3 ome3-zi2 - MP3 Audio File - palm oil.

  38. စွ | swa1 MP3 Audio File - an ending word for emphasis more often used in literary form.

  39. စွာ | swa2 MP3 Audio File - (1) rude and quarrelsome. E.g., စွာလိုက်တာ။ | swa2 lite da2 - how rude!

    (2) part of male Burmese names as in ကျော်စွာ | kjau2 zwa2 - Kyaw Swa.

  40. | hsa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the seventh character ဆလိမ် | hsa1 lain2. (2) proportion; a number of times as in နှစ်ဆတိုး | hna1-hsa1 toe3 - increase by two folds.

    Words with hsa1:

    1. ဆရာကြီး | hsa1-ya2-ji3 MP3 Audio File - big master; head master.
    2. ဆရာဝန် | hsa1-ya2-woon2 MP3 Audio File - doctor.
    3. ဆလတ်ရွက် | hsa1-lut-ywet MP3 Audio File - lettuce.

  41. ဆာ | hsa2 MP3 Audio File - be hungry. E.g., ဆာပြီလား။ | hsa2 byi2 la3 - Are you hungry?

  42. ဆား | hsa3 MP3 Audio File - salt.

  43. ဆွ | hswa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) loosen the soil, etc. (2) instigate.

  44. | za1 MP3 Audio File - the eighth character ဇကွဲ | za1 gweare3. Words with za1:

    1. ဇနီး | za1-ni3 MP3 Audio File - wife (formal).
    2. ဇနီးမောင်နှံ | za1-ni3 moun2-hnun2 MP3 Audio File - young couple.

    Words that sound like za1:

    1. ဆံထုံး | za1-dome3 - traditional hair-style for Myanmar women.
    2. ဆံပင် | za1-bin2 - hair.
    3. တံတွေး | za1-dway3 - saliva; spittle.

  45. ဇာ | za2 MP3 Audio File - (1) lace. (2) part of both male and female Burmese names as in သူဇာ | thu2 za2 - Thuzar (female), and ဇာနည် | za2 ni2 - Zarni (male).

  46. | za1 MP3 Audio File - the ninth character ဈမျည်းဆွဲ | za1 myin2 zweare3.

  47. | nya1 MP3 Audio File - the tenth (Pali) character ဉကလေး | nya1 ga1-lay3.

  48. | nya1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the tenth character ညကြီး . (2) night.

    Words related to night or evening:

    1. ည ၇ နာရီ | nya1 khoon2 na1-na2-yi2 MP3 Audio File - 7 O'clock in the evening.
    2. ညကြရင် | nya1 kja1 yin2 MP3 Audio File - when the night falls.
    3. ညတိုင်း | nya1 dine3 MP3 Audio File - every night.
    4. ညနေ | nya1 nay2 MP3 Audio File - evening.
    5. ညနေခင်း | nya1 nay2 ghin3 MP3 Audio File - sunset time. [literary]
    6. ညနေစောင်း | nya1 nay2 zoun3 MP3 Audio File - when the sun is down.
    7. ညနေတိုင်း | nya1 nay2 dine3 MP3 Audio File - every evening.
    8. ညသန်းခေါင် | nya1 dtha1-goun2 MP3 Audio File - midnight.

  49. ညာ | nya2; nya2 MP3 Audio File - (1) right-hand side. Examples:

    1. ညာဘက် | nya2 bet MP3 Audio File - right side.
    2. ညာဘက်ကွေ့ | nya2-bet kway1 MP3 Audio File - Turn right!
    3. ညာဘက်ထောင့် | nya2-bet doun1 MP3 Audio File - right corner.
    4. ညာဘက်မှာ | nya2-bet hma2 MP3 Audio File - It's on the right side.
    5. ညာဘက်မှာလား | nya2 bet hma2 la3 MP3 Audio File - Is it on the right side?
    6. ညာဘက် အစွန်ဆုံး | nya2-bet a-soon2-zone3 MP3 Audio File - at the extreme right.

    (2) to lie.

  50. ညား | nya3 MP3 Audio File - to marry as in 'A' got married to 'B'.

  51. ညှာ | hnya2 MP3 Audio File - (1) be considerate. (2) be lenient.

  52. | ta1 MP3 Audio File - the eleventh character ဋသန်လျင်းချိတ် | ta1 ta1-lin3-jate.

  53. | hta1 MP3 Audio File - the twelfth character ဌဝမ်းဘဲ | hta1 win2 beare3 .

  54. ဌာ | hta2 as in

    1. ဌာန | hta2-na1 - department.
    2. ဌာနချုပ် | hta2-na1 joat - headquarters.
    3. ဌာနမှုး | hta2 na1 hmu3 MP3 Audio File - department head.

  55. | da1 MP3 Audio File - the thirteenth character ဍရင်ကောက် | da1 yin2 gout.

  56. | da1 MP3 Audio File - the fourteenth character ဎရေမှုတ် | da1 yay2 hmoat.

  57. | na1 MP3 Audio File - the fifteenth character ဏကြီး | na1ji3.

  58. | ta1; da1; ta1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the sixteenth character တဝမ်းပူ | ta1 win3 bu2.

    (2) adverb maker when combined with other words such as ဂရုတစိုက် | ga1-yu1 da1-zite - with care.

    (3) to long for; to wish for as in ဘုရားတ | pfa1-ya3 ta1 - wish for God (or the Buddha) by saying prayers.

    Words with ta1:

    1. တကူးတက | da1-gu3 da1-ga1 MP3 Audio File - (do something) out of one's way.
    2. တခြား | ta1-cha3 MP3 Audio File - other as in "other person".

    3. တစေ့တစောင်း | da1-zay1 da1-zoun3 MP3 Audio File - casually observe (characters and actions).

    4. တညင်းသီး | da1-nyin3 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - djenkol bean.
    5. တနင်္ဂနွေ | ta1-nin3-ga1-nway2 MP3 Audio File - Sunday.
    6. တနင်္လာ | ta1-nin3-la2 MP3 Audio File - Monday.
    7. တမြန်နေ့ | ta1-myan2 nay1 MP3 Audio File - day before yesterday.
    8. တရား | ta1-ya3; ta1-ya3 MP3 Audio File - (1) fairness. (2) be fair.
    9. တရားခံ | ta1-ya1-khan2 MP3 Audio File - defendant or a suspect.
    10. တရားဆွဲ | ta1-ya3 hsweare3 MP3 Audio File - file a legal case; sue.
    11. တရားရုံး | ta1-ya3 yone3 MP3 Audio File - Court House.
    12. တရားလို | ta1-ya1-lo2 MP3 Audio File - plaintiff.
    13. တရားသူကြီး | ta1-ya3 dthu2-ji3 MP3 Audio File - the Judge who is impartial.
    14. တရားဟောဆရာ | ta1-ya3-hau3 hsa1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - pastor.
    15. တရုတ်နံနံ | ta1-yoat nun2-nun2 MP3 Audio File - Celery Stalk.
    16. တရုတ်ပြည် | ta1 yoat pyi2 - China.
    17. တရုတ်မဆလာ | ta1-yoat ma1-hsa1-la2 MP3 Audio File - Five-spiced powder.
    18. တလွဲတချော် | ta1-lweare3 ta1-chau2 MP3 Audio File - erroneously (deviate from goal).

    Words that sound like ta1:

    1. တစ်ခါတလေ | ta1-kha2 ta1-lay2 MP3 Audio File - sometimes.
    2. တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ | ta1-kha2 ta1-yan2 MP3 Audio File - [literary] from time to time.
    3. တစ်ခါတည်း | ta1-kha2-deare3 MP3 Audio File - at once.
    4. တစ်ခုခု | ta1-khu1 khu1 - something.
    5. တစ်ချိန်လုံး | ta1-chain2 lone3 MP3 Audio File - all the time.
    6. တစ်ဆယ် | ta1-hseare2 MP3 Audio File - ten (10).
    7. တစ်ညလုံး | ta1-nya1 lone3 MP3 Audio File - all night.
    8. တစ်ထောင် | ta1-htoun2 MP3 Audio File - one thousand (1,000).
    9. တစ်နှစ်တစ်ခါ | ta1-hnit ta1-kha2 MP3 Audio File - yearly.
    10. တစ်ပတ်တစ်ခါ | ta1-but ta1-kha2 MP3 Audio File - weekly.
    11. တစ်ယောက် | ta1-yout - one person.
    12. တစ်ယောက်တည်း | ta1-yout hteare3 - alone.
    13. တစ်ရာ | ta1-ya2 MP3 Audio File - one hundred (100).
    14. တစ်လတစ်ခါ | ta1-la1 ta1-kha2 MP3 Audio File - monthly.
    15. တစ်ဝမ်းကွဲ | ta1-woon3-gweare3 MP3 Audio File - first cousins.
    16. တစ်သောင်း | ta1-thoun3 MP3 Audio File - ten thousand (10,000).
    17. တစ်သက်လုံး | ta1-thet lone3 MP3 Audio File - life time.
    18. တစ်သိန်း | ta1-thain3 MP3 Audio File - one hundred thousand (100,000).

  59. တာ | ta2 MP3 Audio File or soften da2 MP3 Audio File - suffix appended to verbs or adjectives to make nouns. E.g., ပြော | pyau3 - say (verb). ပြောတာ | pyau3 da2 - speech (noun). Other Usages:

    1. တာတိုပြေး | ta2-toe2 pyay3 MP3 Audio File - sprint.
    2. တာဝေး | ta2 way3 MP3 Audio File - long distance run.
    3. တာဝန်ခံအရာရှိ | ta2-woon2-gun2 a-ya2-shi1 MP3 Audio File - officer-in-charge.

  60. တား | ta3 MP3 Audio File - prevent; prohibit.

  61. တွား | twa3 MP3 Audio File - crawl.

  62. | hta1; hta1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the seventeenth character ထဆင်ထူး | hta1 hsin2 du3.

    (2) get up, rise up, stand. E.g., အိပ်ရာထ | ate-ya2 hta1 - get up from bed in the morning.

    (3) erupt; outbreak as in ရောဂါထ | yau3-ga2 hta1 - outbreak of disease.

    Words with hta1:

    1. ထမင်းကြော် | hta1-min3 jau2 MP3 Audio File - fried rice.

    2. ထမင်းချက် | hta1-min3 chet MP3 Audio File - to cook (verb). hta1-min3-jet - cook or kitchen help (noun).

    3. ထမင်းပေါင်း | hta1-min3-boun3 MP3 Audio File - steamed rice & meat.
    4. ထမင်းသုပ် | hta1-min3 dthoat MP3 Audio File - rice vegetable salad.

  63. ထာ | hta2 as in ထာဝရ | hta2-wa1-ra1 MP3 Audio File - [literary] forever.

    ထာဝစဉ် | hta2-wa1-zin2 MP3 Audio File - [literary] always.

  64. ထား | hta3 MP3 Audio File

    (1) put; to place; to keep. E.g., ဒီမှာထား | de2 hma2 hta3 - put it here.

    (2) equivalent to present participle [~ing] : အဖြူရောင်အင်္ကျီဝတ်ထားတဲ့လူ | a-pfyu2-youn2 ain3-ji2 woot hta3 deare1 lu2 - The man who is wearing a white shirt.

    (3) do something in advance. E.g., ဝယ်ထားလိုက်။ | weare2 hta3 lite - buy now while there is opportunity although the item is not for immediate use or consumption.

  65. ထွာ | htwa2 MP3 Audio File - a span of a stretched palm from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger used as measurement.

  66. ထွား | htwa3 MP3 Audio File - burly; large in size usually used to describe the spurt of growth during adolescence or plants that grow to a large size.

  67. | da1 MP3 Audio File - the eighteenth character ဒထွေး | da1 dway3.

    Words with da1:

    1. ဒယိမ်းဒယိုင် | da1-yain3 da1-yine2 MP3 Audio File - (walk) unsteadily.
    2. ဒရယ် | da1-yeare2 - dear.

    3. ဒဿနိကဗေဒပညာရှင် | dut-tha1-ni1-ka1 bay2-da1 pyin2-nya2-shin2 MP3 Audio File - philosopher.


  68. ဒါ | da2 MP3 Audio File - this.

    ဒါနဲ့ | da2 neare1 - by the way.

    ဒါပေမဲ့ | da2 bay2 meare1 - but.

    ဒါဖြင့် | da2 pfyin1 - in that case.

  69. | da1 MP3 Audio File - the nineteenth character ဓအောက်ခြိုက် | da1 out chite.

  70. ဓါ | da2 MP3 Audio File

    1. ဓါတုဗေဒ | da2-du1 bay2-da1 - chemistry.
    2. ဓာတုပညာရှင် | da2-du1 pyin2-nya2-shin2 MP3 Audio File - chemist.
    3. ဓာတုအင်ဂျင်နီယာ | da2-du1 in2-jin2-ni2-ya2 MP3 Audio File - chemical engineer.

  71. ဓါး | da3 MP3 Audio File - knife.

    ဓားခုတ် | da3 khoat MP3 Audio File - [Sports] Fencing.
    ဓါးပြ | da1-mya1 - robber.

  72. | na1 MP3 Audio File - the twentieth character နငယ် | na1 ngeare2.

    Words with na1:

    1. နဂါး | na1-ga3 - mythical dragon.
    2. နဂါးငွေ့တန်း | na1-ga1-ngway1 dun3 - the Milky Way.
    3. နနွင်း | hsa1-nwin3 (spelled as na1-nwin3) MP3 Audio File - tumeric.
    4. နပန်း | na1-bun3 MP3 Audio File - wrestling.
    5. နပန်းသမား | na1-bun3 dtha1-ma3 MP3 Audio File - wrestler.
    6. နဖူး | na1-pfu3 MP3 Audio File - forehead.
    7. နဘေ | na1-bay2 - rhyme.
    8. နမူနာ | na1-mu2-na2 - example.
    9. နမော်နမဲ့ | na1-mau2 na1-meare1 MP3 Audio File - carelessly.
    10. နယုန် | na1-yone2 - third month of the year in Burmese calendar.

    11. နရား | na1-ya3 - mythical dragon-like animal. Unlike နဂါး | na1-ga3, it has hind-legs and tail of the lion.

    12. နဝမ | na1-wa1-ma1 MP3 Audio File - [Pali] ninth.
    13. နဝရတ် | na1-wa1-rut - [Sanskrit] the nine precious stones namely, ruby, pearl, coral, emerald, topaz, diamond, sapphire, garnet and cat's eye.

  73. နာ | na2 MP3 Audio File - (1) be painful; feel hurt psychologically. E.g., စိတ်နာတယ် | sate na2 deare2 - I feel hurt.

    (2) suffer a loss of time, money or chance as in နစ်နာတယ် | nit-na2 deare2.

    (3) listen attentively as in တရားနာ | ta1-ya3 na2 - listen to Dhamma (religious) talks.

    Words with na2:

    1. နာဂ | na2-ga1 - ethnic people living in the north west hills of Myanmar.
    2. နာတာရှည်ရောဂါ | na2-ta2-shay2 yau3-ga2 MP3 Audio File - chronic illness.
    3. နာနတ်ဖျော်ရည် | na2-nut pfyau2-yay2 MP3 Audio File - pineapple juice.
    4. နာနတ်သီး | na2-nut thi3 MP3 Audio File - pineapple.

    5. နာမ | na2-ma1 - [Pali] name as in နာမရူပ | na2-ma1 yu2-pa1 - name and form; spiritual and physical.

    6. နာမဝိသေသန | na2-ma1 we1-thay2-tha1-na1 MP3 Audio File - adjective.
    7. နာမည် | nun2-meare2 - name.
    8. နာယက | na2-ya1-ka1 - chairperson.
    9. နာရီ | na2-yi2 MP3 Audio File - clock; watch.
    10. နာရီဝက် | na2-yi2-wet - half an hour

  74. နား | na3; na3 MP3 Audio File - (1) ear. (2) take a rest. E.g., နားပါဦး။ | na3 ba2 ome3 - Please take a rest. Other Usages:

    1. နားထောင် | na3 htoun2 MP3 Audio File - listen.
    2. နားထင် | na1-htin2 MP3 Audio File - temple.
    3. နားလည် | na3 leare2 - understand.

  75. နွား | nwa3 MP3 Audio File - ox; bull, cow.

  76. နှ | hna1 as in:

    1. နှမ | hna1-ma1 MP3 Audio File - younger sister of a man.
    2. နှလုံး | hna1-lone3 MP3 Audio File - heart (organ).
    3. နှလုံးခုန်နှုန်း | hna1-lone3 khone2 hnone3 MP3 Audio File - heart beat.
    4. နှလုံးတုန်ခြင်း | hna1-lone3 tone2 jin3 MP3 Audio File - palpitation.
    5. နှလုံးရောဂါ | hna1-lone3 yau3-ga2 MP3 Audio File - heart disease.
    6. နှလုံးသား | hna1-lone3 dtha3 - heart (emotion that feels).
    7. နှလုံးအထူးကုဆရာဝန် | hna1-lone3 a-htu3 ku1 hsa1-ya2-woon2 MP3 Audio File - heart specialist.

  77. နှာ | hna2 as in:

    1. နှာခေါင်း | hna1-khoun3 MP3 Audio File - nose.

  78. နွှာ | hnwa2 MP3 Audio File - peel off.

  79. | pa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the twenty first character ပစောက် | pa1 zout.

    (2) remove; be eradicated as in ပပြောက် | pa1 pyout.

    (3) part of female Burmese names as in ပပ | pa1 pa1 - Pa Pa. Other usages:

    1. ပကတိ | ba1-ga1-de1 - original, normal, unaffected state.
    2. ပခုံး | pa1-khone3 MP3 Audio File - shoulder.
    3. ပဋိပက္ခ | ba1-ti1 pet-kha1 - conflict.
    4. ပဋိသန္ဓေ | pa1-ti1 thun2-day2 - pregnancy.

    5. ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပာဒ် | pa1-date-sa1 tha1-moat-pup - [Buddhism] - Law of Dependent Origination; Law of Dependent Co-Arising.

    6. ပထမ | pa1-hta1-ma1 MP3 Audio File - first.
    7. ပထဝီဝင် | pa1-hta1-we2 win2 - geography.
    8. ပထွေး | pa1-htway3 MP3 Audio File - step-father.
    9. ပဒေသာ | pa1-day2-dtha2 - variety; plenty of something.
    10. ပဓာန | ba1-da2-na1 - what is important, essential, fundamental.
    11. ပမာဏ | pa1-ma2-na1 - magnitude; size.

    12. ပရမတ် | pa1-ra1-mut - [Buddhism] Ultimate Reality; Absolute Truth as opposed to ပညတ် | pyin1-nyut - conventional truth.

    13. ပရိဘောဂ | pa1-ri1-bau3-ga1 - furniture.
    14. ပရိဘောဂ လုပ်ငန်း | pa1-ri1-bau3-ga1 loat-ngan3 MP3 Audio File - furniture business.
    15. ပရိသတ် | pa1-rate-thut - audience.
    16. ပရုတ်ဆီ | pa1-yoat hsi2 - hot rubbing balm to relieve muscular pain.
    17. ပရုတ်လုံး | pa1-yoat lone3 - moth-ball.
    18. ပလာတာ | pa1-la2-ta2 - Indian pancake parata.
    19. ပလုတ်ကျင်း | pa1-loat kjin3 - gargle; rinse the mouth.
    20. ပလိပ်ရောဂါ | pa1-late yau3-ga2 MP3 Audio File - plague.
    21. ပဟေဠိ | pa1-hay2-li1 - riddle; puzzle.

    Words that sound like pa1:

    1. ပီလောပီနံမှုန့် | pa1-lau3-pi2-nun2 hmone1 MP3 Audio File - tapioca powder.
    2. ပုခက် | pa1-khet - cradle.

    3. ပုဆိုး | pa1-hso3 - Sarong worn by Burmese male. ထဘီ | hta1-main2 is a similar garment worn by female in a different fashion. Unisex term is လုံချည် | lone2-ji2, worn in different styles according to the gender.

  80. ပါ့ | pa1 MP3 Audio File - emphasizes the verb as in ဟုတ်ပါ့ | hote pa1 - yes, indeed.

  81. ပါ | pa2 MP3 Audio File - (1) include. (2) accompany. (3) be carried.

    (4) keen interest; hobby; inclination. E.g., ဝါသနာမပါဘူး။ | wa2-dtha1-na2 ma1-pa2 bu3 - I am not too keen in this. Other Usages:

    1. ပါကစ္စတန် | pa2-kit-sa1-tan2 - Pakistan.
    2. ပါမောက္ခ | pa2-mout-kha1 MP3 Audio File - professor.
    3. ပါမောက္ခချုပ် | pa2-mout-kha1 joat MP3 Audio File - rector.
    4. ပါရဂူ | pa2-ra1-gu2 MP3 Audio File - specialist; Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).
    5. ပါလစ္စတိုင်း | pa2-lit-sa1-tine3 - Palestine.

  82. ပါ | ba2 MP3 Audio File - emphasis in speech. E.g., ဟုတ်ပါတယ်။ | hote ba2 deare2 - yes, indeed.

  83. ပါး | pa3 MP3 Audio File - (1) thin. E.g., ပါးပါးလှီး။ | pa3-pa3 hli3 - Cut into thin slices.

    (2) small in amount. (3) shrewd. (4) cheek. Other Usages:

    1. ပါးချိုင့် | pa1-chine1 MP3 Audio File - dimple.
    2. ပါးစပ် | ba1-zut MP3 Audio File - mouth.
    3. ပါးသိုင်းမွေး | pa1-thine3 hmway3 MP3 Audio File - human whisker.

  84. ပျာ | pya2 MP3 Audio File - become restless.

  85. ပျား | pya3 MP3 Audio File - bee.

  86. ပြ | pya1 MP3 Audio File - to show; to display. ဆရာဝန်ပြ | hsa1-ya2-woon2 pya1 MP3 Audio File - get medical examination (by showing where it hurts to the doctor.) Other Usage:

    1. ပြခန်း | pya1 gun3 MP3 Audio File - showroom.
    2. ပြတိုက် | pya1 dite MP3 Audio File - museum.
    3. ပြတိုက်မှုး | pya1-dite hmu3 MP3 Audio File - curator.
    4. ပြတင်းပေါက် | ba1-din3 bout - window.
    5. ပြပွဲ | pya1 bweare3 - exhibition.
    6. ပြဿနာ | pyut-tha1-na2 MP3 Audio File - problem.

  87. ပြာ | pya2 MP3 Audio File - (1) blue.

    (2) dim (vision). E.g., မျက်စိပြာသွားတယ်။ | myet-si1 pya2 thwa3 deare2 - I have a blurred vision caused by bright light.

    (3) vocal quality such as that of Cliff Richard or Rod Steward with resonance as opposed to sharp vocal sound as in အသံပြာတယ်။ | a-thun2 pya2 deare2.

    (4) ash.

  88. ပြား | pya3; pya3; pya3 MP3 Audio File - (1) flat and thin; flattened. (2) 1/100 of 1 Kyat. (3) vary as in ကွဲပြား | kweare3 pya3.

  89. ပွ | pwa1; pwa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) swell.

    (2) puffy; fluffy; pulpy as opposed to compact with high density ကျစ် | kjit.

    (3) encounter with good fortune. E.g., ပွတာပဲ။ | pwa1 da2 beare3 - I am in luck!

    (4) loose and baggy. E.g., ဘောင်းဘီပွတယ်။ | boun3-be2 pwa1 deare2 - those pants are baggy.

  90. ပွား | pwa3 MP3 Audio File - grow and increase in number.

  91. | pfa1 MP3 Audio File - (1) the twenty second character ဖဦးထုပ် | pfa1 oat htoat. (2) father as in ဖခင် | pfa1 ghin2. Other Usages:

    1. ဖရိုဖရဲ | pfa1-yo2 pfa1-yeare3 MP3 Audio File - in disarray.
    2. ဖရဲသီး | pfa1-yeare3 dthi3 MP3 Audio File - watermelon.
    3. ဖရဲသီးဖျော်ရည် | pfa1-yeare3-dthi3 pfyau2-yay2 MP3 Audio File - water melon juice.

  92. ဖာ | pfa2; pfa2 MP3 Audio File

    (1) to mend; patch. E.g., ဘီးပေါက်နေတာ ဖာပေးပါ။ | bain3 pout nay2 da2 pfa2 pay3 ba2 - Please help to patch the punctured tire.

    (2) [vulgar] prostitute. Other Usages:

    1. ဖာလာစေ့ | pfa2-la2 zi1 MP3 Audio File - cardamom seed.
    2. ဖာလူဒါ | pfa2-lu2-da2 - Indian style sweet drink with ice cream, sago, peanuts, jelly, etc..

  93. ဖား | pfa3; pfa3 MP3 Audio File - (1) frog. (2) to flatter in servile way to get favors; curry favor.

  94. ဖျာ | pfya2 MP3 Audio File - mat.

  95. ဖျား | pfya3 MP3 Audio File - have fever.

  96. ဖြာ | pfya2 MP3 Audio File - radiate out in different directions.

  97. ဖြား | pfya3 MP3 Audio File

    ဖြားယောင်း | pfya3 youn3 - seduce and deceive.

  98. ဖွ | pfwa1 MP3 Audio File

    (1) mess up the room, etc. (not applicable to life, situations, etc..)

    (2) ruffle the hair.

    (3) incantation to ward off pain etc.. Similar to English expression, "touch wood", but used by adults to console small children. E.g., ဥုံဖွ၊ နာနာပျောက်စေ။ | ome2 pfwa1, na2 na2 pyout say2 - Go away pain, go away, I say.

  99. ဖွာ | pfwa2 MP3 Audio File - puff a cheroot, cigar or cigarette.

  100. ဖွား | pfwa3 MP3 Audio File - (1) give birth to a child. (2) be born in certain country or year as in မြန်မာပြည်ဖွား | myan2-ma2 pyi2 pfwa3 - born in Myanmar.

  101. | ba1 MP3 Audio File - the twenty third character ဗထက်ခြိုက် | ba1 det chite .

    Words with ba1:

    1. ဗမာ | ba1-ma2 - ethnic Burmese in Myanmar.
    2. ဗလ | ba1-la1 - strength.
    3. ဗလီ | ba1-li2 - (1) mosque. (2) polo. squash
    4. ဗလီရိုက် | ba1-li2 yite MP3 Audio File - play polo; play squash.

  102. ဗာ | ba2 MP3 Audio File

    ဗာဒံသီး | ba2-dun2 dthi3 MP3 Audio File (or) ဗာဒံစေ့ | ba2-dun2 si1 - Indian almond.

    ဗာတီကန်မြို့တော် | ba2-ti2-kun2 myo1-dau2 - Vatican City.

  103. ဗျ | bya1 MP3 Audio File - colloquial ending word (male). E.g., ဟုတ်တယ်ဗျ။ | hote deare2 bya1 - Yes, true!

  104. ဗျာ | bya2 MP3 Audio File - (1) colloquial (male) answer to the call. (2) interjection (male) to express shock.

  105. ဗျား | bya3 MP3 Audio File - (1) colloquial (male) answer to the call. (2) colloquial ending word (male) for positive statements. E.g., ဟုတ်ပါံ့ဗျား။ | hote pa1 bya3 - absolutely!

  106. | ba1 - MP3 Audio File the twenty fourth character ဘကုန်း | ba1 gome3. (2) father. (3) prefix for father's elder brother or someone older than father as in ဘဘကြီး | ba1 ba1 ji3 - big Uncle, as opposite to ဦးလေး | u3 lay3 - young Uncle. (4) part of male Burmese names as in ဘမော် | ba1 mau2 - Ba Maw. Words with ba1:

    1. ဘကြီး | ba1 ji3 MP3 Audio File - elder brother of parent.
    2. ဘရာဇီး | ba1-ra2-zi3 - Brazil.
    3. ဘရူနိုင်း | ba1-ru2-nine3 - Brunei.
    4. ဘဝ | ba1-wa1 MP3 Audio File - life with experiences and encounters.
    5. ဘဝင်မြင့်ခြင်း | ba1-win2-myin1 jin3 MP3 Audio File - [literary] conceit.
    6. ဘဟားမား | ba1-ha3-ma3 - Bahamas.

    Words that sound like ba1:

    1. ဘီလူး | ba1-lu3 - ogre; giant.
    2. ဘုရင် | ba1-yin2 - king.
    3. ပုစဉ်း | ba1-zin3 - dragon fly.
    4. ပုစွန် | ba1-zoon2 MP3 Audio File - prawn.
    5. ပုစွန်ကြော် | ba1-zoon2 jau2 MP3 Audio File - fried prawns.
    6. ပုစွန်ခြောက် | ba1-zoon2 jout MP3 Audio File - dried shrimp.
    7. ပုစွန်တုပ်ဟင်း | ba1-zoon2-doat hin3 MP3 Audio File - chili lobster.
    8. ပုစွန်ဟင်း | ba1-zoon2 hin3 MP3 Audio File - Burmese prawn dish.
    9. ပြတင်းပေါက် | ba1-din3-bout - window.

    10. ပြဒါး | ba1-da3 - mercury (Hg); the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.

  107. ဘာ | ba2; ba2 MP3 Audio File - The first word in questions "what" and "why". E.g., ဒါဘာလဲ။ | da2 ba2 leare3 - What is this? Other Usage:

    1. ဘာရိန်း | ba2-rain3 - Bahrain.
    2. ဘာသာ | ba2-dtha2 - language; religion; subject of study in school such as Science.

    3. ဘာသာပြန်သူ | ba2-tha2-pyan2 dthu2 MP3 Audio File - translator.
    4. ဘာသာဗေဒပညာရှင် | ba2-tha2-bay2-da1 pyin2-nya2-shin2 MP3 Audio File - linguist.

  108. ဘား | ba3 MP3 Audio File - (1) [English] a horizontal rod used by gymnasts. (2) [English] establishment where alcohol is served.

  109. ဘွား | bwa3 MP3 Audio File - grandmother as in ဘိုးဘွား | bo3 bwa3 - ancestors. Also commonly pronounced as pfwa3 MP3 Audio File in အဘွား | a-pfwa3 - grandmother.

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