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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".
  
  ဘယ်ကလာလဲ | beare2 ga1 la2 leare3 - Where do you come from?
  
  (4) Conjunction "if".
  
  သူလာကကျုပ်သွားမယ် | thu2 la2 ga1 kjoat thwa3 meare2 - I will go if he comes.
  
  (5) harness a horse or elephant.
  
  (6) saddle.
  
  ကကတိုး | ka1 ga1-doe3 - Two Stripe Gulper Catfish.
  
  ကကတစ် | ka1 ga1-dit - Barramundi; Sea Perch.
  
  ကကူရံ | ka1 ku2-yan2 - Threadfin fish.
  
  ကကြိုးတန်ဆာ | ka1 jo3 da1-za2 - stable gear including decorated covering for the horse; caparison.
  
  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.
  
  ကစားပွဲ | ga1-za3 bweare3 - sports event.
  
  ကစီဓာတ် | ka1-si2 dut - carbohydrate; starch.
  
  ကဇော် | ga1-zau2 - liquor made from stiky rice.
  
  ကဇာတ် | ka1 zut - Burmese Opera.
  
  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.
  
  ကဆုန် | ka1-hsone2 - second month in Myanmar calendar.
  
  ကဆုန်ပေါက် | ka1-hsone2 pout - gallop.
  
  ကညာ | ka1-nya2 - maiden; young unmarried lady.
  
  ကညစ် | ka1-nyit - stylus.
  
  ကညွတ် | ka1-nyoot - asparagus.
  
  ကဏန်း | ga1-nun3 - crab.
  
  ကဏန်းပေါင်း | ga1-nun3 boun3 - steamed crab.
  
  ကဏန်းလက်မ | ga1-nun3 let-ma1 - spanner or wrench to hold nuts and bolts.
  
  ကတိ | ga1-de1 - promise.
  
  ကတိကဝတ် | ga1-de1 ka1-woot - promise with the element of superficial social grace လောကဝတ် | lau3-ga1-woot .
  
  ကတိခံဝန်ချက် | ga1-de1 khan2-woon2-jet - pledge.
  
  ကတိတည် | ga1-de1 ti2 - keep promise.
  
  ကတိပေး | ga1-de1 pay3 - make promise.
  
  ကတိပျက် | ga1-de1 pyet - break promise.
  
  ကတိသစ္စာပြု | ga1-de1 thit-sa2 pyu1 - take an oath; make an affirmation.
  
  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 around November when offering is made to Buddhist monasteries on lucky-draw basis.
  
  ကနစိုသီး | ka1-na1-so2 dthi3 - fruit of a type of mangrove tree.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  ကဗျာ | ga1-bya2 - poem.
  
  ကဗျာဆရာ | ga1-bya2 hsa1-ya2 - poet.
  
  ကဗျာစပ် | ga1-bya2 sut - compose a poem.
  
  ကဗျာဆန် | ga1-bya2 hsun2 - poetic.
  
  ကဗျာလင်္ကာ | ga1-bya2 lin2-ga2 - poem; prosody.
  
  ကမကထ | ka1-ma1 ka1-hta1 - supervise.
  
  ကမူးရှူးထိုး | ga1-mu3 shu3-doe3 - rashly; in a hasty and foolhardy manner.
  
  ကမောက်ကမ | ka1-mout ka1-ma1 - in chaos; in disorder.
  
  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.
  
  ကရဝေးရွက် | ka1-ra1-way3 ywet - Bay leaf.
  
  ကရဝိက် | ka1-ra1-wate - Karaweik, a mythical bird.
  
  ကရာတေး | ka1-ra2-tay3 - Japanese martial art "Karate".
  
  ကရား | kha1-ya3 - kettle or pot with handle.
  
  ကရုဏာ | ga1-yu1-na2 - [Pali] compassion.
  
  ကရုဏာစိတ် | ga1-yu1-na2 zate - compassionate mind.
  
  ကရုဏာသက် | ga1-yu1-na2 thet - have compassion.
  
  ကရုဏာသက်တတ်သော | ga1-yu1-na2 thet tut dthau3 - compassionate.
  
  ကရင် | ka1-yin2
  ကရင်လူမျိုး | ka1-yin2 lu2-myo3 - ethnic Kayin (Karen) people.
  
  ကရင်ပြည်နယ် | ka1-yin2 pyi2-neare2 - Kayin State.
  
  ကရိုဏ်း | ka1-rine3 - [Grammar] classifications of vocalization.
  
  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 - hollowed log or a 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.
  
  ကလိ | ka1-li1 - fiddle with.
  
  ကလိထိုး | ga1-li1 hto3 - tickle.
  
  ကလီစာ | ka1-li2-za2 - tripe and viscera of pigs or bovine used as delicacy in cooking.
  
  ကလေကချေ | ka1-lay2 ka1-chay2 - unrefined and uneducated person.
  
  ကလေး | kha1-lay3 - child; infant; baby.
  
  ကလေးကလား | kha1-lay3 ka1-la3 - in an immature, juvenile, childish manner.
  
  ကလေးခုတင် | kha1-lay3 ga1-din2 - baby crib.
  
  ကလေးဆံ | kha1-lay3 hsun2 - lack maturity; be immature; childish.
  
  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.
  
  ကလေးဖျက် | kha1-lay3 pfyet - have abortion; terminate pregnancy.
  
  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 အခွင့်အရေးများဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေ | kha1-lay3 tha1-ngeare2 a-khwin1-a-yay3-mya3 hsine2-ya2 u1-ba1-day2 - Law on Rights of the Child.
  
  ကလဲ့စားချေ | ga1-leare1-za3 chay2 - take revenge; retaliate.
  
  ကလောင် | ka1-loun2 - pen for writing.
  
  ကလောင်နာမည် | ka1-loun2 na2-meare2 - pen name; pseudonym.
  
  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.
  
  ကလပ်စည်း | ka1-lut si3 - cell.
  
  ကလိမ်ကျ | ka1-lain2 kja1 - swindle.
  
  ကလယ်ကလယ် (မျက်လုံး) | ka1-leare2 ka1-leare3 - (eyes) rollings with bewilderment.
  
  ကလျာ | ka1-lya2 - desirable features of a woman with excellent figure, hair, skin, bones, and youthfulness.
  
  ကသိကအောင့်ဖြစ် | ka1-thi1 ka1-oun1 pfyit - caused uncomfortable feeling.
  
  ကသည်း | ka1-theare3 - Khasi people in Assam region.
  
  
  [sounds like ka1]
  
  ကု​လား | ka1-la3 - natives of (or) people with roots originating in the Indian subcontinent. ka1-la3 - of foreign origin.
  
  ကု​လားဆင် | ka1-la1-hsin2 - resembles an Indian.
  
  ကု​လားထိုင် | ka1-la1-htine2 - chair; seat with backrest.
  
  ကု​လားထိုင်လု | ka1-la1-htine2 lu1 - vie for position.
  
  ကု​လားပဲ | ka1-la1-beare3 - split pea.
  
  ကု​လားဖန်ထိုး | ka1-la1-pfun2 hto3 - shuffle playing cards.
  
  ကု​လားဖြူ | ka1-la1-pfyu2 - British colonists.
  
  ကု​လားမ ခြေထောက် | ka1-la1-ma1 chay2-dout - walking stilts with foot rests in the middle.
  
  ကု​လားဟင်း | ka1-la3 hin3 - Indian style curry cuisine.
  
  ကု​လားအုတ် | ka1-la1-oat - camel.
  
  ကန့်လန့်ကာ | ka1-la1-ga2 - curtain; drape; screen.
  
  ကန့်လန့်ကာချ | ka1-la1-ga2 cha1 - close the curtain.
  
  ကမ္မဇရုပ် | ka1-ma1-za1 yoat - [Buddhism] physical body.
  
  ကမ္မဇလေ | ka1-ma1-za1 lay2 - [Buddhism] force at the time of childbirth.
  
  ကမ္မဇိဒ္ဓိ | ka1-ma1-zate-de1 - [Buddhism] mystical power bestowed by one's past deeds.
  
  ကမ္မဝါ | ka1-ma1-wa2 - [Buddhism] collection of sacred Buddhist text in Pali.
  
  ကမ္မဋ္ဌာန်း | ka1-ma1-htun3 - [Buddhism] meditation.
  
  ကမ္မဋ္ဌာန်းထိုင် | ka1-ma1-htun3 htine2 - [Buddhism] practice meditation.
  
  
• ကာ | ka2 - to block; to shield; defend.
  
  ကာကွယ် | ka2-gweare2 - defend; prevent.
  
  ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက် | ka2-gweare2 soun1-shout - protect.
  
  ကာကွယ်ထိန်းသိမ်းစောင့်ရှောက် | ka2-gweare2 htain3-thain3 soun1-shout - protect and conserve.
  
  ကာကွယ်ဆေး | ka2-gweare2 zay3 - vaccine.
  
  ကာကွယ်တားဆီးခြင်း | ka2-gweare2 ta3-hsi3 jin3 - deterrence.
  
  ကာကွယ်ရေး | ka2-gweare2-yay3 - defence (British); defense (American).
  
  ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီး | ka2-gweare2-yay3 woon2-ji3 - Minister of Defence; US Secretary of Defense.
  
  ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန | ka2-gweare2-yay3 woon2-ji3 hta2-na1 - Ministry of Defence.
  
  ကာကွယ်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနဝန်ကြီး | ka2-gweare2-yay3 woon2-ji3 hta2-na1 woon2-ji3 - Myanmar Minister for Defence.
  
  ကာဂျစ္စတန် | ka2 jit sa1-tan2 - Kyrgyzstan, a republic in west central Asia bordering northwestern China.
  
  ကာဇက်စတန် | ka2 zet sa1-tan2 - kazakhstan, a landlock republic to the south of Russia, part of former USSR.
  
  ကာတာ | ka2-ta2 - (1) Qatar, an Arab gulf state. (2) Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States.
  
  ကာတွန်း | ka2-toon3 - [English] cartoon; comics.
  
  ကာတွန်းဆရာ | ka2-toon3 hsa1-ya2 - cartoonist.
  
  ကာဗွန် | ka2-boon2 - [English] carbon.
  
  ကာဗွန်စက္ကူ | ka2-boon2 set-ku2 - carbon paper for duplicate copy.
  
  ကာဘရိုက်တာ | ka2-ba1-rite-ta2 - [English] carburetor.
  
  ကာဘော်လစ်ဆပ်ပြာ | ka2-bau2-lit hsut-pya2 - carbolic soap.
  
  ကာမ | ka2-ma1 - sensual desire; sexual desire.
  
  ကာမဂုဏ် | ka2-ma1 gome2 - sensuality.
  
  ကာမစိတ်ကြွခြင်း | ka2-ma1 sate kjwa1 jin3 - erotism; sexual arousal.
  
  ကာမစိတ်ကြွစေသော | ka2-ma1 sate kjwa1 zay2 dthau3 - erotic; titillating; sexy.
  
  ကာမဆက်ဆံ | ka2-ma1 hset-hsun2 - have sexual relations; have sexual intercourse.
  
  ကာမဘုံ | ka2-ma1 bone2 - [Buddhism] eleven realms of sensual beings.
  
  ကာမအာရုံခံစားနိုင်သော | ka2-ma1 ah2-yone2 khan2-za3 nine2 dthau3 - erogenous.
  
  ကာယ | ka2-ya1 - physical body; physique.
  
  ကာယကံ | ka2-ya1-gun2 - bodily actions and deeds.
  
  ကာယကံမြောက် | ka2-ya1-gun2 myout - physically (assault, etc..)
  
  ကာယကံရှင် | ka2-ya1-gun2 shin2 - in person, not an agent on behalf of someone.
  
  ကာယပညာ | ka2-ya1 pyin2-nya2 - P.E., physical education.
  
  ကာယဗလ | ka2-ya1 ba1-la1 - bodybuilding; brawn.
  
  ကာယသိဒ္ဓိ | ka2-ya1 thate-de1 - supernatural body with force field to shield against weapons.
  
  ကာယိန္ဒြေ | ka2-yain2-da1-ray2 - modesty; dignity.
  
  ကာရိုက်ကြိယာ | ka2-rite ka1-ri1-ya2 - [grammar] causative verb that shows action ပြုခြင်းပြ as opposed to သုဒ္ဓကြိယာ stative verb that shows existence or state ရှိခြင်းပြ၊ ဖြစ်ခြင်းပြ.
  
  ကာရန် | ka2-yan2 - (1) rhyme. (2) vowel sound of the letter.
  
  ကာရန်သင့် | ka2-yan2 thin1 - be opportune.
  
  ကာလ | ka2-la1 - period of time.
  
  ကာလကတ္တား | ka2-la1-kut-ta3 - Kolkata (Calcutta) the largest city in India located in eastern India.
  
  ကာလစည်းကမ်းသတ် | ka2-la1 si3-kun3 thut - [law] limitation; time limit after which lawsuits cannot be brought.
  
  ကာလဝမ်းရောဂါ | ka2-la1 wun3 yau3-ga2 - cholera.
  
  ကာလသား | ka2-la1-dtha3 - young man; lad.
  
  ကာလသားရောဂါ | ka2-la1-dtha3 yau3-ga2 - sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and venereal disease.
  
  ကာလသားဟင်း | ka2-la1-dtha3 hin3 - chicken dish cooked by local young men with less oil and sometimes spiced with marijuana.
  
  
• ကား | ka3; ka3; ka3 ; ga3
  
  (1) exaggerate.
  
  (2) spread legs or hands.
  
  (3) [English] car.
  
  (4) numerical classifier (measure word) for flat piece of artistic work.
  
  ပန်းချီကား | ba1-ji2-ka3 - a painting.
  
  (5) particle suffix for emphasis similiar to "indeed".
  
  သူကားသူတော်ကောင်းတည်း | thu2 ga3 thu2-dau2-goun3 de3 - He is a saint indeed.
  
  ကားကြုံတားစီး | ka3-jone2 ta3 si3 - hitchhike; get a free ride by extending the arm with thumb up signal. (Not a common practice in Myanmar.)
  
  ကားကြုံတားစီးသူ | ka3-jone2 ta3 si3 dthu2 - hitchhiker.
  
  ကားငှားလုပ်ငန်း | ka3 hnga3 loat-ngan3 - car rental.
  
  ကားဗုံးခွဲမှု | ka3 bone3-khweare3 hmu1 - car bombing.