Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

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• က | ka1; ka1; ga1; ga1; ga1
  
  (1) the first character ကကြီး | ka1 ji3.
  
  (2) dance (dɑːns 🔊).
  
  (3) Postpositional marker "from" classified as ထွက်ခွာရာပြဝိဘတ် | htwet-khwa2-ya2-pya1 we1-but
  
  ဘယ်ကလာလဲ | beare2 ga1 la2 leare3 - Where do you come from?
  
  (4) Postpositional marker to indicate the subject (ကတ္တား | kut-ta3) of the sentence.
  
  မောင်ဘက ဒါပေးလိုက်တယ် | moun2-ba1 ga1 da2 pay3 lite deare2 - Maung Ba gave this to you.
  
  (5) Postpositional marker equivalent to "at" that shows location classified as နေရာပြဝိဘတ် | nay2-ya2-pya1 we1-but .
  
  အနောက်ကကား | ‌a-nout ‌ga1 ‌ka3 - the car behind. (the car at the back.)
  
  (6) Conjunction "if".
  
  သူလာကကျုပ်သွားမယ် | thu2 la2 ga1 kjoat thwa3 meare2 - I will go if he comes.
  
  (7) harness a horse or elephant.
  
  (8) saddle (ˈsad(ə)l 🔊).
  
  (9) the first word for some species of fish derived from the Mon language.
  
  
• ကကတိုး | ka1 ga1-doe3 - Two Stripe Gulper Catfish.
  
  ကကတစ် | ka1 ga1-dit - Barramundi; Sea Perch.
  
  ကကုသန် | ka1 ku1 thun2 - [Buddhism] Kakusandha Buddha, name of the first Buddha to appear in this World out of the five in the order of Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana, Kassapa, Gautama, Maitreya - ကကုသန်၊ ကောဏာဂုံ၊ ကဿပ၊ ဂေါတမ၊ အရိမေတ္တယျ.
  
  ကကူရံ | ka1 ku2-yan2 - Threadfin fish.
  
  ကကြိုးတန်ဆာ | ka1 jo3 da1-za2 - caparison; stable gear including decorated covering for the horse.
  
  
• ကခုန်မြူးထူး ပျော်ပါးစားသောက် | ka1 khone2 myu3-du3 pyau2-pa3 sa3-thout - revel; r‌acket; celebrate noisily at a party; have a good time. 🕺 💃
  
  ကခုန်မြူးထူး ပျော်ပါးစားသောက်ခြင်း | ka1 khone2 myu3-du3 pyau2-pa3 sa3-thout-jin3 - drunken revelry; whoopee; orgy. 🍰 🍷 🍖 🍕 🍺 🥂
  
  ကခုန်မြူးထူး ပျော်ပါးစားသောက်သူ | ka1 khone2 myu3-du3 pyau2-pa3 sa3-thout-dthu2 - partygoer; merrymaker; reveler; reveller. 🎵 🎶
  
  ကချေသည် | ka1 jay2 dtheare2 - professional dancer (prəˈfɛʃ(ə)n(ə)l ˈdɑːnsə 🔊).
  
  ကချော်ကချွတ် | ka1-chau2 ka1-choot - carelessly; in a sloppy way.
  
  ကချင် | ka1-chin2
  ကချင်လူမျိုး | ka1-chin2 lu2-myo3 - ethnic Kachin people.
  
  ကချင်ပြည်နယ် | ka1-chin2 pyi2-neare2 - Kachin state.
  
  
• ကစား | ga1-za3
  
  (1) play a game such as football, but not a musical instrument. E.g., ဂိမ်းကစား | gain3 ga1-za3 - play a computer game.
  
  (2) gamble; risk money. E.g., ချဲထီကစား | cheare3-hti2 ga1-za3 - play Thai 3D loto. (Also: ချဲထီထိုး | cheare3-hti2 hto3.)
  
  (3) tease, taunt, tantalize. (Also: ကျီစား | kji2-za3.)
  
  (4) mind to wander and not at ease as in စိတ်ကစား | sate ga1-za3.
  
  (5) manipulate market price as in ‌ဈေးကစား | zay3 ga1-za3.
  
  (6) having a "play" as in having some kind of shaky and unstable mechanical movement or looseness where there should not be any. E.g., စတီယာတိုင်ကစား | sa1-ti2-ya2 tine2 ga1-za3 - steering wheel of a car to wobble (ˈwɒb(ə)l 🔊).
  
  ကစားကွင်း | ga1-za3 gwin3 - playground.
  
  ကစားစရာ | ga1-za3 sa1-ya2 - toy; plaything.
  
  ကစားပွဲ | ga1-za3 bweare3 - sports event.
  
  ကစားဖော် | ga1-za3 bau2 - playmate.
  
  ကစီဓာတ် | ka1-si2 dut - carbohydrate; starch.
  
  က‌စော် | ga1-zau2 - liquor made from stiky rice.
  
  က‌စော်ဖောက်ခြင်း | ga1-zau2 pfout jin3 - fermentation; zymosis. (Also see: တဆေးဖောက်ခြင်း၊ အချဉ်ဖောက်ခြင်း.)
  
  က‌စော်ဖောက်ပညာ | ga1-zau2 pfout pyin2-nya2 - zymology (zī-ˈmäl-ə-jē 🔊); zymurgy, the study of fermentation, such as making wine.
  
  ကစဉ့်ကရဲ | ga1-zin1 ga1-yeare3
  ကစဉ့်ကလျား | ga1-zin1 ga1-ya3 - in disorder (of defeated troops, etc.).
  
  ကစိမ်းကဝါး | ga1-zain3 ga1-wa3 - in a hostile manner.
  
  ကစိမ်းကဝါးကြည့် | ga1-zain3 ga1-wa3 kji1 - glare (ɡlɛː 🔊).
  
  
• ကဆုန် | ka1-hsone2 - second month in Myanmar calendar.
  
  ကဆုန် ညောင်ရေသွန်းပွဲ | ka1-hsone2 nyoun2-yay2 thoon3 bweare3 - Vesak Day, a Buddhist religious festival when devotees pour water on the sacred banyan or Bo tree on the full-moon night (or day) of the month of ka1-hsone2. This day marks the day the Buddha was born, reached enlightenment, and passed away (to final Nibbana).
  
  ကဆုန်ပေါက် | ka1-hsone2 pout - gallop ( ˈɡaləp 🔊).
  
  
• ကဇာတ် | ka1 zut - Burmese Opera.
  
  
• ကညာ | ka1-nya2 - maiden; young unmarried lady.
  
  ကညာပျိုနဲ့ ဇရာအို | ka1-nya2-pyo2 neare1 za1-ya2-o2 - 'A Young Maiden and the Old Man,' 👧 👴 a classic 1972 Myanmar movie starring ကောလိပ်ဂျင်နေဝင်း၊ ကျော်ဟိန်း၊ စံရှားတင်၊ ခင်သန်းနု 👍 👍.
  
  ကညာမြှေး | ka1-nya2 hmyay3 - hymen; maidenhead; virginal membrane.
  
  ကညစ် | ka1-nyit - stylus.
  
  ကညွတ် | ka1-nyoot - asparagus ( əˈsparəɡəs 🔊).
  
  
• ကဏန်း | ga1-nun3 - crab.
  
  ကဏန်းပေါင်း | ga1-nun3 boun3 - steamed crabs.
  
  ကဏန်းလက်မ | ga1-nun3 let-ma1 - [US & Canada] wrench; monkey wrench; crescent wrench; adjustable wrench. [UK] spanner; adjustable spanner. [Australia] shifting spanner; shifter; a tool to hold or to twist nuts and bolts. (Also ကိုက် | gite.)
  
  
• ကတညုတ | ka1-ta1 nyu1-ta1 - [Pali] gratitude; thankfulness.
  
  ကတိ | ga1-de1 - promise; verbal commitment.
  
  ကတိကဝတ် | ga1-de1 ka1-woot - promise with the element of superficial social grace လောကဝတ် | lau3-ga1-woot .
  
  ကတိခံဝန်ချက် | ga1-de1 khan2-woon2-jet - pledge; assurance.
  
  ကတိတည် | ga1-de1 ti2 - keep a promise.
  
  ကတိပေး | ga1-de1 pay3 - make a promise; pledge; swear (swɛː 🔊) in the sense of making a promise. In love and relations, သစ္စာ | thit-sa2 related words such as သစ္စာဆို | thit-sa2 hso2 and သစ္စာတိုင် | thit-sa2 tine2 are the better choice of poetic words. (Watch this country version released a year earlier.)
  
  ကတိပျက် | ga1-de1 pyet - break a promise.
  
  ကတိမပေးသော | ga1-de1 ma1-pay3 dthau3 - non-committal; uncommitted.
  
  ကတိသစ္စာပြု | ga1-de1 thit-sa2 pyu1 - take an oath; make an affirmation; vow.
  
  ကတော့ | ga1-dau1 - funnel.
  
  ကတော် | ga1-dau2 - wife of someone in high social status.
  
  ဆရာကတော် | hsa1-ya2 ga1-dau2 - "Madam", formal address to the wife of a doctor.
  
  ကတိုး | ga1-doe3 - musk deer.
  
  ကတောက်ကဆတ်ဖြစ် | ga1-dout-ga1-hsut pfyit - quarrel.
  
  ကတည်းက | ga1-deare3-ga1 - since.
  
  မနက်ကတည်းက စောင့်နေတယ် | ma1-net ga1-deare3-ga1 soun1 nay2 deare2- (I have been) waiting since this morning.
  
  ကတုတ်ကျင်း | ga1-doat kjin3 - trench; bunker; bomb shelter.
  
  ကတုန်ကယင် | ga1-dome2 ga1-yin2 - shaking and trembling with fear.
  
  ကတုန်းကတိုက်လုပ် | ga1-dome3 ga1-dite loat - fabricate tales with malicious intent to break up good relationships of others.
  
  ကတွတ် | ga1-doot - cluster fig, a species of plant.
  
  ကတွတ်သီး | ga1-doot thi3 - fruit of cluster fig used to make sweet snack.
  
  
• ကထိက | ka1-hti1-ka1 - lecturer.
  
  ကထိန် | ka1-htain2 - Kathina festival with a kind of raffle for the monks around November (anytime between သီတင်းကျွတ်လပြည့် and တန်ဆောင်မုန်းလပြည့်) when offering is made to Buddhist monasteries on lucky-draw basis.
  
  
• ကနစိုသီး | ka1-na1-so2 dthi3 - fruit of a species of mangrove tree.
  
  ကနီမြို့ | ka1-ni2 myo1 - Kani, a town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar which has existed since the time of King Anawrahta of Pagan Kingdom. It was spelled ကန္နီ in the old days.
  
  ကနဦး | ka1-na1-u3 - beginning; outset; starting point.
  
  ကနုကမာ | ka1-nu1 ka1-ma2
  ကမာ | ka1-ma2 - oyster that bears pearl inside its shell, also a delicacy in seafood restaurant menu.
  
  ကနူး၊ ကယက် | ka1-nu3 ka1-yet - [Sports] Canoe/Kayak where the canoe uses a single-bladed paddle and the kayak uses a double-bladed paddle.
  
  ကနေဒါ | ka1-nay2-da2 - Canada, 🇨🇦 a country in northern part of North America and the second largest country in the World.
  
  ကနေဒီတောင် | ka1-nay2-de2 toun2 - Kennedy Peak, the second highest mountain in Chin State, Myanmar at 2,703 meter (8,868 ft). (Also ထွမ်း၀ုမ်း - Thuam Vum in Chin or သီရိဥတ္တမတောင် | thi2-ri1 oat-ta1-ma1 toun2.)
  
  ကနောင်မင်းသား | ka1-noun2 min3-dtha3 - Kanaung Mintha (1820 – 1866), son of King Tharrawaddy and younger brother of King Mindon, best known for his attempt to modernize Myanmar, which started earlier than the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
  
  ကနောင်မြို့ | ka1-noun2 myo1 - Kanaung, a town in Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar where Kanaung Mintha was a viceroy for about ten years.
  
  ကနွဲ့ကလျ | ka1-nweare1 ka1-lya1 - in a girlish manner as opposed to manly manner.