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Myanmar English Dictionary
Vowel 'A'
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တာ | ta2; ta2; ta2
da2
(1) suffix appended to verbs or adjectives to make nouns.
ပြော | pyau3 - say (verb).
ပြောတာ | pyau3 da2 - speech (noun).
(2) action, durability or responsibility relating to length of time or distance.
(3) levee; embankment as in တာတမံ | ta2 ta1-mun2.
(4) Myanmar new year period as in သင်္ကြန်အတာ | thin3-jan2 a-ta2.
(5) prattle; blabber; be talkative.
(6) measure as in တိုင်းတာ | tine3 ta2.
တာဂျီကစ္စတန် | ta2-ji2 kit-sa1-tan2 - Tajikistan, a landlocked republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan.
တာစူ | ta2-su2 - get ready at the start line for a race; get ready to do something.
တာတိုပြေး | ta2-doh2 pyay3- sprint.
တာထွက် | ta2 htwet - spring into action from the starting point of a race.
တာပတ်ကွင်း | ta2-but kwin3 - racetrack.
တာရိုး | ta2-yo3 - dyke.
တာရိုးလမ်း | ta2-yo3 lun3 - causeway.
တာရှည်ခံ | ta2-shay2 khan2 - ability to last for a long time; be durable.
တာလွှတ် | ta2 hloot - pop a gun or send a signal to start a race.
တာဝေး | ta2 way3- long distance run.
တာဝန် | ta2-woon2 - duty; responsibility.
တာဝန်ကျေ | ta2-woon2 kjay2 - fulfill responsibility.
တာဝန်ကျေပွန်သော | ta2-woon2 kjay2-poon2 dthau3 - dutiful.
တာဝန်ခံ | ta2-woon2 khan2 - take responsibility. ta2-woon2-gun2 - responsible person.
တာဝန်ခံမှု | ta2-woon2-khan2 hmu1 - accountability.
တာဝန်ခံအရာရှိ | ta2-woon2-gun2 a-ya2-shi1- officer-in-charge.
တာဝန်မဲ့ | ta2-woon2 meare1 - irresponsibly.
တာဝန်ရှိသော | ta2-woon2 shi1 dthau3 - accountable (person).
တာဝန်လစ်ဟင်းခြင်း | ta2-woon2 lit-hin3 jin3 - negligence of duty.
တာဝန်လွှဲအပ် | ta2-woon2 hlweare3 ut
တာဝန်အပ်နှင်း | ta2-woon2 ut-hnin3 - delegate authority.
တာဝန်လွှဲအပ်နှံခြင်း | ta2-woon2 hlweare3 ut-hnun2 jin3
တာဝန်အပ်နှင်းခြင်း | ta2-woon2 ut-hnin3 jin3 - delegate authority.
တာယာ | ta2-ya2 - [English] tire.
တာရာ | ta2-ya2
နက္ခတ်တာရာ | net-khut ta2-ya2 - constellation; a group of stars.
တာလပတ် | ta2-la1-but - waterproof canvas.
တာဝတိံသာ | ta2-wa1-dain2 dtha2 - [Buddhism] Heavenly World of "Nat" two levels above the Human World.
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တား | ta3
- prevent; prohibit.
တားဆီး | ta3 hsi3 - prevent; block and obstruct; deter.
တားဆီးခြင်း | ta3 hsi3 jin3 - deterrence.
တားဆေး | ta3 zay3 - contraceptive pill.
တားမြစ် | ta3-myit - prohibit; forbid.
တားမြစ်စာချွန်တော်အမိန့် | ta3-myit sa2-choon2-dau2 a-main1 - [law] Writ of Prohibition from a higher court ordering a lower court not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case.
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တွ | twa1
- limbs to feel stiff.
ဆိုင်းတွ | hsine3 twa1 - limbs to be temporarily paralyzed or incapacitated.
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တွား | twa3
- crawl; creep.
တွားသွားသတ္တဝါ | twa3-thwa3 thut-ta1-wa2 - reptile.
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ထ | hta1; hta1
(1) the seventeenth character ထဆင်ထူး | hta1 hsin2 du3.
(2) get up, rise up, stand as in အိပ်ရာထ | ate-ya2 hta1 - get up from bed.
(3) erupt; outbreak as in ရောဂါထ | yau3-ga2 hta1 - outbreak of disease.
ထနောင်းပင် | hta1-noun3 bin2 - thorny tree; acacia leucaphloea.
ထဘီ | hta1-main2 - sarong worn by women.
ထမနဲ | hta1-ma1-neare3 - Htamanè, a delicacy made of sticky rice, peanut, oil.
ထမနဲထိုး | hta1-ma1-neare3 hto3 - outdoor making of Htamanè on a large frypan.
ထမနဲထိုးပွဲ | hta1-ma1-neare3 hto3 bweare3 - Htamanè cooking festival on the 11th month of Myanmar calendar.
ထမင်း | hta1-min3 - cooked rice.
ထမင်းကြော် | hta1-min3 jau2- fried rice.
ထမင်းကြမ်း | hta1-min3 jan3 - leftover rice.
ထမင်းခူး | hta1-min3 khu3 - prepare meal by scooping rice on the plate.
ထမင်းချက် | hta1-min3 jet - cook or kitchen help. hta1-min3 chet- cook rice.
ထမင်းချိုင့် | hta1-min3 jine1 - two or three stacked round metallic lunch container.
ထမင်းစားရေသောက် | hta1-min3-za3 yay2-dthout - not fluently; know just basic words to get by.
ထမင်းထုပ် | hta1-min3 doat - a packet of meal.
ထမင်းပေါင်း | hta1-min3 boun3- steamed rice & meat.
ထမင်းဖြူ | hta1-min3 byu2 - plain rice.
ထမင်းဘူး | hta1-min3 bu3 - lunch box.
ထမင်းရည် | hta1-ma1-yay2 - thin porridge water; gruel.
ထမင်းသုပ် | hta1-min3 dthoat- rice vegetable salad.
ထမင်းအိုးကွဲ | hta1-min3-o3 kweare3 - break one's rice bowl (job, livelihood.)
ထမင်းအိုးခွဲ | hta1-min3-o3 khweare3 - break someone's rice bowl (job, livelihood.)
ထရံ | hta1-yan2 - wall of the house.
ထရီနီဒတ်နှင့် တိုဘက်ဂို | hta1-ri2-ni2-dut hnin1 toe2-bet-go2 - Trinidad and Tobago, an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela.
ထရန်စစ္စတာ | hta1-ran2-sit-sa1-ta2 - [English] transistor.
[sounds like hta1]
ထန်းကျင့်လှေကား | hta1-jin1 hlay2-ga3 - ladder used by toddy-palm climber.
ထန်းခလက်တဲ | hta1-ga1-let teare3 - hut with roof made of palmyra fronds.
ထန်းညှပ် | hta1-hnyut - wooden clamp used for sap collection of palmyra palm.
ထန်းနို့ | hta1-no1 - spadix (fleshy spike) of toddy palm from which the sap is tapped.
ထန်းပလပ် | hta1-ba1-lut - base of the toddy-palm branch.
ထန်းပင်မြစ် | hta1-bin2 myit - shoot sprouting from toddy-palm nut.
ထန်းဖူးရစ် | hta1-bu3 yit - grooving.
ထန်းရည် | hta1-yay2 - sap from toddy palm.
ထန်းရည်ခါး | hta1-yay2 ga3 - fermented drink made from the toddy palm sap.
ထန်းရည်ချို | hta1-yay2 jo2 - sap from toddy palm.
ထန်းလက် | hta1-let - stem of the toddy palm leaf.
ထန်းလျက် | hta1-nyet - palm-sugar.
ထန်းလျက်ခိုးကောင် | hta1-nyet kho3 goun2 - a type of large ant.
ထန်းလျက်အိုးတွေ့ | hta1-nyet-o3 tway1 - stumble on the object of desire.
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ထာ | hta2
ထာဝရ | hta2-wa1-ra1- [literary] forever; everlastingly; eternally; evermore.
ထာဝရဖြစ်သော | hta2-wa1-ra1 pfyit dthau3 - [literary] everlasting; eternal; ageless; unending; perpetual; unceasing.
ထာဝစဉ် | hta2-wa1-zin2- [literary] always.
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ထား | hta3; hta3
(1) put, place, or keep.
ဒီမှာထား | de2 hma2 hta3 - put it here.
(2) particle 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.
ဝယ်ထားလိုက် | weare2 hta3 lite - Go ahead and buy it now. (Buy now while there is opportunity although the item is not for immediate use or consumption.)
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ထွာ | htwa2; htwa2; htwa2
(1) a span of a stretched palm — from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger — used as measurement.
(2) numerical classifier (measure word) for how many of such spans.
(3) make such a measurement with hand as in as in တိုင်းထွာ | tine3 htwa2.
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ထွား | htwa3
- burly; husky; large in size, usually used to describe the spurt of growth during adolescence, or to describe plants and animals that grow to a large size.
ထွားကျိုင်း | htwa3 kjine3 - (1) be stout. (2) plants to be luxuriant.