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Myanmar English Dictionary

Vowel 'A'

• က | ka1; ka1; ga1; ga1; ga1
  
  (1) the first character ကကြီး | ka1 ji3.
  
  (2) dance.
  
  (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.
  
  (9) the first word for some species of fish derived from 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 ကကုသန်၊ ကောဏာဂုံ၊ ကဿပ၊ ဂေါတမ၊ အရိမေတ္တယျ.
  
  ကကူရံ | ka1 ku2-yan2 - Threadfin fish.
  
  ကကြိုးတန်ဆာ | ka1 jo3 da1-za2 - stable gear including decorated covering for the horse; caparison.
  
  
• 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 revery; whoopee; orgy.
  
  ကခုန်မြူးထူး ပျော်ပါးစားသောက်သူ | ka1 khone2 myu3-du3 pyau2-pa3 sa3-thout-dthu2 - partygoer; merrymaker; reveler.
  
  ကချေသည် | ka1 jay2 dtheare2 - professional dancer.
  
  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 - to play.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  
• ကဆုန် | ka1-hsone2 - second month in Myanmar calendar.
  
  ကဆုန်ပေါက် | ka1-hsone2 pout - gallop.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• ကဏန်း | ga1-nun3 - crab.
  
  ကဏန်းပေါင်း | ga1-nun3 boun3 - steamed crab.
  
  ကဏန်းလက်မ | ga1-nun3 let-ma1 - spanner; wrench; 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 promise.
  
  ကတိပေး | ga1-de1 pay3 - make promise; pledge.
  
  ကတိပျက် | ga1-de1 pyet - break 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.
  
  ကတွတ်သီး | ga1-doot thi3 - cluster fig fruit 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 type of mangrove tree.
  
  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 canoe uses a single-bladed paddle and 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.
  
  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.
  
  ကနွဲ့ကလျ | ka1-nweare1 ka1-lya1 - in a girlish manner as opposed to manly manner.
  
  
• ကပိုကရို | ga1-bo2 ga1-yo2 - with unkempt appearance.
  
  ကပေါက်ချိကပေါက်ချာ | ga1-bout-chi1 ga1-bout-cha2
  ကပေါက်တိကပေါက်ချာ | ga1-bout-ti1 ga1-bout-cha2
  ကသောက်ကရောက် | ka1-thout ga1-yout - in illogical, absurd, nonsensical manner.
  
  ကပျာကယာ | ga1-bya2 ga1-ya2
  ကပျာကသီ | ga1-bya2 ga1-thi2
  ကတောကမျော | ga1-dau3 ga1-myau3
  ကတိုက်ကရိုက် | ga1-dite ga1-yite
  ကမျောသောပါး | ga1-myau3 thau3-ba3
  ကရောသောပါး | ga1-yau3 thau3-ba3
  ကသောကမျော | ka1-thau3 ga1-myau3
  ကသုတ်ကရက် | ka1-thoat ka1-yet - in a hurry; hurriedly.
  
  ကပြား | ka1 bya3 - mixed race.
  
  ကပြက်ကချော် | ga1-byet ka1-chau2 - carelessly and anyhow does something, resulting in poor workmanship.
  
  
• ကဖီး | ka1-pfe3 - [English] café; tea shop.
  
  
• ကဗျာ | ga1-bya2 - poem.
  
  ကဗျာဆရာ | ga1-bya2 hsa1-ya2 - poet.
  
  ကဗျာစပ် | ga1-bya2 sut - compose a poem; versify; poetize; poetise.
  
  ကဗျာဆန် | ga1-bya2 hsun2 - poetic.
  
  ကဗျာလင်္ကာ | ga1-bya2 lin2-ga2 - poem; prosody.
  
  
• ကဘူးလ် | ka1-bu3 (l) - Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
  
  
• ကမကထ | ka1-ma1 ka1-hta1 - supervise; manage; oversee; superintend.
  
  ကမူးရှူးထိုး | ga1-mu3 shu3-doe3 - rashly; in a hasty and foolhardy manner.
  
  ကမောက်ကမ | ka1-mout ka1-ma1 - in chaos; in disorder; topsy-turvy; upside down.
  
  ကမန် | ka1-mun2 - Arakan-Kaman racial group in Rakhine state.
  
  ကမန်းကတန်း | ga1-mun3 ga1-dun3 - in a rush; in a hurry.
  
  ကမြင်းကြောထ | ka1-myin3-jau3 hta1 - do mischievous, naughty, juvenile act.
  
  
• ကယား | ka1-ya3
  ကယားလူမျိုး | ka1-ya3 lu2-myo3 - ethnic Kayah (Karenni) people.
  
  ကယားပြည်နယ် | ka1-ya3 pyi2-neare2 - Kayah State.
  
  ကယောင်ကတမ်း | ga1-youn2 ga1-dun3 - incoherently in a hallucinatory state of mind.
  
  ကယောင်ကတမ်းဖြစ်ခြင်း | ga1-youn2 ga1-dun3 pfyit jin3 - hallucination.
  
  ကယောင်ချောက်ချား | ga1-youn2 chout-cha3 - in a deranged or hysterical manner with unreasonable fear; incoherently with fear and phobia.
  
  
• ကရကဋ် | ka1-ra1-kut - [astrology] Cancer, the fourth of 12 zodiac signs: မိဿ၊ ပြိဿ၊ မေထုန်၊ ကရကဋ်၊ သိဟ်၊ ကန်၊ တူ၊ ဗြိစ္ဆာ၊ ဓနု၊ မကရ၊ ကုံ၊ မိန် represented by ♋ ပုစွန်လုံး for the month of ဝါဆို.
  
  ကရဝေးရွက် | ka1-ra1-way3 ywet - bay leaf.
  
  ကရဝိက် | ka1-ra1-wate - Karaweik, a mythical bird.
  
  ကရာ | ga1-ya2 - verb suffix particle meaning doing "whatever" without thinking over with a good judgement. E.g., တွေ့ကရာဝယ်စား - impulsively buy and eat all kind of junk food.
  
  ကရာတေး | ka1-ra2-tay3 - Japanese martial art "Karate". [Japanese: 空手 meaning the art of unarmed defense. The same characters 空手 Kōngshǒu in Chinese: null; bare + hand = empty-handed.]
  
  ကရား | kha1-ya3 - kettle or pot with handle; jar; beaker.
  
  ကရားရေလွှတ်ပြော | kha1-ya3 yay2-hloot pyau3 - talk non-stop.
  
  ကရုဏာ | ga1-yu1-na2 - [Pali] compassion.
  
  ကရုဏာစိတ် | ga1-yu1-na2 zate - compassionate mind.
  
  ကရုဏာစိတ်ကင်းမဲ့သော | ga1-yu1-na2-zate kin3-meare1-dthau2
  ကရုဏာစိတ်မရှိသော | ga1-yu1-na2-zate ma1-shi1-dthau3 - lacking compassion; heartless (act); stony (expression.)
  
  ကရုဏာသက် | ga1-yu1-na2 thet - have compassion.
  
  ကရုဏာသက်တတ်သော | ga1-yu1-na2 thet tut dthau3 - compassionate.
  
  ကရော့ | ka1-yau1 - retributory word. E.g., မှတ်ကရော့ဟယ် | hmut ka1-yau1 heare2 - Take that! This will serve you right! Let this be a lesson for you!
  
  ကရင် | ka1-yin2
  ကရင်လူမျိုး | ka1-yin2 lu2-myo3 - ethnic Kayin (Karen) people.
  
  ကရင်ပြည်နယ် | ka1-yin2 pyi2-neare2 - Kayin State.
  
  ကရင်အမျိုးသား လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော် | ka1-yin2 a-myo3-dtha3 loot-myout-yay3 tut-ma1-dau2 - Karen National Liberation Army; KNLA.
  
  ကရင် အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး | ka1-yin2 a-myo3-dtha3 a-si3 a-yone3 - Karen National Union; KNU.
  
  ကရိုဏ်း | ka1-rine3 - (1) [Grammar] classifications of vocalization. (2) [Astrology] unfavorable time.
  
  ကရွတ် | ka1-yoot - round bamboo or cane placemat for pots and kettles.
  
  ကရိန်း | ka1-rain3 - [English] crane to lift and move heavy objects.
  
  
• ကလတက် | ka1-la1-det - a hollowed log or recorded sound in some monasteries stroke or played as a wake up call.
  
  ကလတက်ခေါက် | ka1-la1-det khout - strike a hollowed log ကလတက် usually around four in the morning. A series of beats has increasing timing, followed by decreasing timing to a stop. The pattern is repeated three times.
  
  ကလိ | ka1-li1 - fiddle with.
  
  ကလိထိုး | ga1-li1 hto3 - tickle.
  
  ကလီစာ | ka1-li2-za2 - (1) tripe and viscera of pigs or bovine used as delicacy in cooking. (2) inner mechanical or electrical parts of a device.
  
  ကလေကချေ | ka1-lay2 ka1-chay2 - unrefined and uneducated person.
  
  ကလေး | kha1-lay3 - child; one's own child or a young person before becoming an adult.
  
  
  • မွေးကင်းစကလေး | mway3 ghin3 za1 kha1-lay3 - newly born infant.
  • နို့စို့အရွယ်ကလေး | no1-so1 a-yweare2 kha1-lay3 🍼
    လမ်းမလျှောက်တတ်သေးသော ကလေး | lun3 ma1-shout-tut thay3-dthau3 kha1-lay3 - baby.
  • လမ်းလျှောက်တတ်ခါစ ကလေး | lun3-shout-tut kha2 za1 kha1-lay3 - toddler; tot; yearling.
    
    
  ကလေးကလား | kha1-lay3 ka1-la3 - in an immature, juvenile, childish manner.
  
  ကလေး ကျေးတောင် ညို | ka1-lay3 kjay3-doun2 nyo2 - Kale Kye-Taung Nyo (1385–1426), governor of Kale (Kalay), a prince and a top military commander who became the 7^th King of အင်းဝ | in3-wa1 - Ava after his lover queen ရှင်ဘို့မယ် | shin2-bo1-meare2 assassinated both the 5^th king သီဟသူ | thi2-ha1 thu2 - Thihathu and his eight-year old son (by an another queen) မင်းလှ | min3 hla1 - Min Hla, who was the 6^th king of Ava for just three months. He himself was overthrown in less than seven months by a fellow senior commander.
  
  ကလေးခုတင် | kha1-lay3 ga1-din2 - baby crib.
  
  ကလေးဆန် | kha1-lay3 hsun2 - lack maturity; be immature; be childish; be silly.
  
  ကလေးထိန်း | kha1-lay3 dain3 - nanny; babysitter.
  
  ကလေးနို့တိုက် | kha1-lay3 no1 tite - breastfeed.
  
  ကလေးနို့တိုက်နေတဲ့ | kha1-lay3 no1-tite nay2 deare1
  ကလေးနို့တိုက်နေသော | kha1-lay3 no1-tite nay2 dthau3 - breastfeeding; lactating.
  
  ကလေးပျက် | kha1-lay3 pyet - have miscarriage with a stillborn (dead) baby.
  
  ကလေးပျက်ခြင်း | kha1-lay3 pyet jin3 - miscarriage; stillbirth; spontaneous abortion.
  
  ကလေးဖျက် | kha1-lay3 pfyet - have abortion; terminate pregnancy.
  
  ကလေးမြို့ | ka1-lay3 myo1 - Kale (Kalay), a town in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar close to Chin State and India.
  
  ကလေးရောဂါကုဆရာဝန် | kha1-lay3 yau3-ga2-ku1 hsa1-ya2-woon2 - pediatrist; pediatrician; paediatrician; a doctor specializing in the care of infants and children.
  
  ကလေးရောဂါကုပညာ | kha1-lay3 yau3-ga2-ku1 pyin2-nya2 - paediatrics; pediatrics; pedology; a branch of medicine that studies the treatment of infants and children.
  
  ကလေးရှိ | kha1-lay3 shi1 - be pregnant.
  
  ကလေးလက်တွန်းလှည်း | kha1-lay3 let-toon3-hleare3 - baby pram.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ် | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 - child; kid.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ်ဆိုင်ရာ အခွင့်အရေးကာကွယ်ရေး ဥပဒေ | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 hsine2-ya2 a-khwin1 a-yay3 ka2-gweare2-yay3 u1-ba1-day2 - Child Rights Protection Act.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ်ညစ်ညမ်းပုံ ပြုလုပ်ဖြန့်ဖြူးခြင်း | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 nyit-nyan3-pone2 pyu1-loat pfyan1-byu3-jin3 - child pornography.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ် တရားရုံး | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 ta1-ya3-yone3 - juvenile court.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ်များအပေါ် ရာဂစိတ်ရှိသူ | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 mya3 a-pau2 ya2-ga1 sate shi1 dthu2 - pedo; pedophile; paedophile; a pervert who is sexually attracted to children.
  
  ကလေးသူငယ် အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေ | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 a-khwin1-a-yay3-mya3 hsine2-ya2 u1-ba1-day2 - Law on Rights of the Child.
  
  ကလေးအနှီး | kha1-lay3 a-hni3 - swaddling bands; swaddling clothes; diaper. E.g., ကလေးကို အနှီးနဲ့ထွေးထား | kha1-lay3 go2 a-hni3 neare1 htway3 hta3 - wrap, swathe, or swaddle the infant with a swaddling blanket.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေ | ga1-leare1-za3 chay2 - take revenge; retaliate.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေခြင်း | ga1-leare1-za3-chay2 jin3 - revenge; retaliation; vengeance.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေခြင်းဖြစ်သော | ga1-leare1-za3-chay2 jin3 pfyit dthau3 - retaliatory.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေလိုစိတ် | ga1-leare1-za3-chay2 lo2 zate - vengefulness; vindictiveness.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေလိုစိတ်ရှိသော | ga1-leare1-za3-chay2 lo2 zate shi1 dthau3 - vengeful; revengeful; vindictive; unforgiving.
  
  ကလောမြို့ | ka1-lau3 myo1 - Kalaw, a holiday resort town on the hill of Shan State at an elevation of 1,310 meters (4,300 feet) with its beautiful scenery and many trekking trails is a well-known tourist destination for hiking and trekking adventures to nearby Inle Lake and Pindaya caves.
  
  ကလော် | ka1-lau2 - (1) pry open; lever. (2) pick as in နှာခေါင်းကလော် - pick nose.
  
  ကလော်ဆဲ | ka1-lau2 hseare3 - trounce; chew up; lambast; berate.
  
  ကလော်ဆဲခြင်း | ka1-lau2 hseare3 jin3 - vitriol; vituperation; abusive language used to express blame or censure.
  
  ကလောင် | ka1-loun2 - pen for writing; quill.
  
  ကလောင်နာမည် | ka1-loun2 na2-meare2 - pen name; pseudonym.
  
  ကလိုင် | ga1-line2 - (1) cavity. (2) hand-held bell. ka1-line2 - (1) molten tin. (2) a stick used as a seat for palm tree climber.
  
  ကလစ် | ka1-lit - [English] clip.
  
  ကလန်ကဆန် | ka1-lun2 ka1-hsun2 - defiantly; rebelliously.
  
  ကလန်ကလား | ga1-lun2 ga1-la3 - lanky; tall and thin.
  
  ကလပ် | ka1-lut - [English] (1) clutch. (2) club for social gathering.
  
  ကလာပ်စည်း | ka1-lut si3 - cell.
  
  ကလိမ်ကလည်လုပ် | ka1-lain2 ka1-leare2 loat
  ကလိမ်ကျ | ka1-lain2 kja1 - swindle; con; defraud; rip off; pull a trick.
  
  ကလယ်ကလယ် (မျက်လုံး) | ka1-leare2 ka1-leare3 - (eyes) rolling with bewilderment.
  
  ကလျာ | ka1-lya2 - desirable features of a woman with excellent figure, hair, skin, bones, and youthfulness.
  
  
• ကဝေ | ka1-way2 - warlock; sorcerer.
  
  ကဝေမ | ka1-way2-ma1 - witch; sorceress.
  
  ကဝေအတတ် | ka1-way2 a-tut - witchcraft; sorcery; black magic.
  
  
• ကသိကအောင့်ဖြစ် | ka1-thi1 ka1-oun1 pfyit - caused uncomfortable feeling.
  
  ကသည်း | ka1-theare3 - Khasi people in Assam region.
  
  ကသိုဏ်း | ka1-thine3 - object of focus and concentration in a type of meditation practice.
  
  ကသိုဏ်းရှု | ka1-thine3 shu1 - focus on an object during meditation.
  
  ကသိုဏ်းဝန်း | ka1-thine3 woon3 - circular field of focus for concentration practice.